I didn't make the jump. The people writing the art
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Posted On: 01/28/2017 10:25:43 PM
I didn't make the jump. The people writing the articles did because THEY could make the case
WTF man, I'm going to take your 'I've made up my mind this is the way it is' arguments over those of Constitutional scholars and historians who've written peer reviewed books and articles?
I don't f*ckin' think so!
You claimed that Congress could have freed the slaves and or prevented the Civil War. There is no evidence to support either claim, and plenty of evidence to contradict it.
You've chosen this 'hill' to die on. Too bad you didn't prepare to defend it by putting out the wire and the claymores. Too bad you didn't zero in the artillery and set up the machine gun crossfires.
In other words, you died on it. LOL!
I stand by the following. I'm trying to help you out by emboldening key points, but it's clearly not working. A triumph of hope over experience on my part, I guess.
WTF man, I'm going to take your 'I've made up my mind this is the way it is' arguments over those of Constitutional scholars and historians who've written peer reviewed books and articles?
I don't f*ckin' think so!
You claimed that Congress could have freed the slaves and or prevented the Civil War. There is no evidence to support either claim, and plenty of evidence to contradict it.
You've chosen this 'hill' to die on. Too bad you didn't prepare to defend it by putting out the wire and the claymores. Too bad you didn't zero in the artillery and set up the machine gun crossfires.
In other words, you died on it. LOL!
I stand by the following. I'm trying to help you out by emboldening key points, but it's clearly not working. A triumph of hope over experience on my part, I guess.
Quote:
Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition at Yale University
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divide...r_hav.html
None of these proposals gained any real traction against the rising Lincoln administration's (and Lincoln's own) steadfastness to draw the line about any future expansion of slavery.
The only measure that did emerge from Congress was an original Thirteenth Amendment, that would have explicitly barred Congress from ever ending slavery in the existing slave states.
THAT is an historical fact that directly refutes your opinion .
This idea even gained Lincoln's guarded support, although it never made it to the states for ratification, nor did it stop the wave of secession in the Deep South.
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