Thanks for the research, once again confirming to me that Free Republic represents the pinnacle of cumulative, reasoned, internet thought.
My title intended to allude to the fact that the Founders were the original secessionists. And, I find it curious that many here LOVE them, but HATE the South. I suspect some sophistry is involved in order to reach such an obtuse conclusion in one’s own mind.
Very much my pleasure. It's amazing what one can find when wandering the dusty, forgotten halls of the Library of Congress:
"If the States look with apathy on this silent descent of their government into the gulf [of consolidation] which is to swallow all, we have only to weep over the human character formed uncontrollable but by a rod of iron, and the blasphemers of man as incapable of self-government become his true historians."
--Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821.
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I suspect some sophistry is involved in order to reach such an obtuse conclusion in one’s own mind.
Agreed. In my experience, even a reasonably intelligent person can't seem to separate the morality of slavery with the legality of it.
Until they can, their reasoning will remain flawed.
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Great post, BTW!
No one here "HATES the South".
That is just a fantasy in your delusional mind.
It tells us all that you are neither serious nor honest in your thinking, pal.
You need to get over it.