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I shall not fill in the blank areas of your history education. Look it up, sir, if you wish to know.

I have. I can point out to how the slave population rose by over 20% between 1850 and 1860. I can point you to statistics which show that the southern plantation owners propered during that period like never before. I can also point you to statistics which show that the number of free blacks actually declined in a number of southern states, while growing everywhere else. Finally I can quote chapter and verse of the confederate constitution which shows that the document protected slavery throughout the south and safeguarded the importation of new slaves.

You make blanket statements without offering any evidence to support them, and when challenged on your claims you find that to be a character flaw in those who challenge you. Well I have a great deal of respect for your right of free speech and your right to say whatever you want. But I do have problems with false speech and I'm sorry if you are troubled by that. The easiest way to silence me would be to do the research and prove me wrong. Are you interested in doing that?

Finally I can quote chapter and verse of the confederate constitution which shows that the document protected slavery throughout the south and safeguarded the importation of new slaves.

Constitution of the Confederate States, Article I.:

Sec. 9. (I) The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same. You'll forgive me if I find it difficult to interpret this phrase as safeguarding the importation of new slaves, especially since the Confederates' secession would have made it easier for the US to outlaw slavery within its own borders, thus eventually rendering the exception meaningless.

I said only that slavery was in decline and at an end-I was given this conclusion by the very cost of the slaves and the value of the agricultural enterprise. The end of the system had been seriously entertained in the US Congress and state legislatures-whether to outlaw it outright, purchase the freedom of the slaves ( by buying the owners interest ), or some other scheme.

You are as a stray dog, wandering a neighborhood where your behavior makes you unwelcome, constantly barking insult. You suggest that I would justify or desire the system perptrated 200 years ago should have been continued. The implication is a false and cowardly attempt at insult. I really wonder what is the source of your displeasure-but only a little. It passes immediatly, when I regard your rudeness.

I do not wish to 'silence you'-I only wish to explain how I see you ( and as others may also )-as a rude, ignorant, and antagonistic pest, that seeks only to offend and aggravate people who have done you no harm, threatened none, ask you nothing, and were having a civil and pleasant conversation, not a contest of insult. I think it you who wishes to stifle and interrupt. Your sort seeks only to disrupt & distract, cause unpleasantness where ever you choose. So bark on-but be known for what you are-a petty twit whose only manner of discourse is that of an uncivilized boor. Your antics will gain no more of my attention.