Posted on 08/23/2013 7:55:15 AM PDT by chessplayer
The law banning importation of slaves after 1808 was enforced by the United States Navy. The Navy kept a squadron of war ships off the West African coast from 1819 to 1861 specifically to prevent slave ships from delivering their cargos to the new world. In the 1840s a second squadron was added to patrol off the coast of Brazil. In the 1850s a squadron started anti slave trade patrols in the Caribbean.
The Navy’s success was not great, only about 100 slave ships were seized during the 42 years active anti-slave patrolling. By comparison, the Royal Navy captured over 1600 slave ships. Of course the Royal Navy was considerably larger than our Navy during those years.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” - Lyndon Baines Johnson about the Great Society Socialism plan.
Lincoln’s 13th Amendment. “No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions or service by thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.” This is the 13th Amendment (AKA the Corwin Amendment) that President Lincoln sent to the States for ratification in March 1861. Only the State of Ohio actually ratified this amendment. I see nothing about any taxes in this amendment. Maybe you would be so kind as to provide the text of “Lincoln’s proposed 13th amendment” you are referring to.
Why don’t you just tell me why the Civil war came about. that seems to be what you want to do!
What I want, is for you to answer the question that I asked concerning your post 33. What states rights had the Federal Government violated so seriously that secession and Civil War were the only answer. I am sure you have a well document list of the states rights violations by the Buchanan administration that lead the Southern states to secede. I would like to know what they were.
The kind that can make an error and admit it. I did err.
also the kind that agreed with San Houston about session
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.
oh and the kind that thinks the CSA was a moral abyss as most of its claims really came down to the POWER to Own another person
Born Ft. Worth.
Grand Father served 36th Div Italy
You are one big giant imaginative reach boy son
Don Quixote slaying mean old southern windmills stamping out racism pell mell
Totally blissfully ignorant of your own bigotry and prejudice
Its all about white racism for you....how sad.......the world crumbles around you and you’ve found a cost free way to feel superior to others simply by talking in platitudes
How original
Truly...you can’t think for yourself
You are no southerner young man....likely your folks are my age and fled Flint or Dearborn for Texas in the 80s
Hope you read I Have A Dream over and over today...lol
If you want to continue arguing with me.....do it over what I wrote not what you like to imagine like that fantasy that made you so proud that Texas sent as many to Federals as to CSA
Go hang with X or Sherman Logan and bone up then get back to me grasshopper
“Or it imposed as the highest law of the land that some people were not people.”
Wow, you are purposefully willing to remain ignorant and obtuse. This statement shows your idoctrination and willingness to stay in that state of thinking.
“That you take the most positive view is nice but it is not the only view.”
I take the historically accurate view, it is easy enough to research as the founders intentions were very well documented.
“SO while they did not resolve the issue except to leave the institution as it was, they did not impose it; it did not begin with them.”
In addition, the founders recognized that the issue of slavery must be eliminated at some time and they were able to incorporate the very tools to ammend the constitution. Had they insisted on eliminating slavery as part of the original union, then the union would have never occured. Without this union resulting in the United States, then there would not have been a United States that elminated slavery.
Your claim that I am ignorant is some what laughable, the fact that I disagree with you does not mean I do not know how the sausauge was made.
Would there have been a union if slavery was outlawed immediately?
agreed.
Well, it’s true in many ways. Slavery was a Democrat institution, and certainly the Democrat party has consistently done everything it can to destroy black prosperity or progress since then. In a more literal sense, it’s true because the minimum wage — a form of slavery — increases unemployment for every demographic.
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