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To: BroJoeK; achilles2000
The Supreme Court was still ruled over by Southern Chief Justice Taney, of Dred-Scott fame.

Yeah, it's hard for us to imagine a Supreme Court justice writing such baloney.

But, time moves on. Generations come and go. Lincoln is now generally regarded as one of our two or three greatest presidents.

Nearly everyone now recognizes that the slaveholders were trapped in a pathological culture of dependency from which they could not escape without intervention by an external force. Lincoln and the Union provided the tough love that slaveholders desperately needed to discover that they really could face the world on the their own two feet without the support of slaves. That is why most of their descendants are now grateful to Lincoln for all that he did to end slavery and grateful, too, to the United States for reconstructing Southern culture and creating what we know now as the New South.

Progress continues. There are now fewer people than ever who are burdened with hatred for the abolitionists or resentment for the elimination of slavery. They may be as noisy as ever, but they are very few in number now and, if asked, most of them will now bitterly concede that slavery is gone - gone forever and never coming back.

357 posted on 06/17/2014 5:47:16 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food

The Lincoln you adore is a myth.

All of your prattle trying to wrap this dispute about Constitutional powers and various historical events in “slavery” is as intellectually dishonest a thing as I’ve seen here. No one is interested in the return of slavery, and you know it.

You’re a troll.


364 posted on 06/17/2014 6:25:13 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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