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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: SecularBull who wrote (119742)12/27/2000 9:01:53 PM
From: WTSherman  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
<Yet, it's easy to look at something that had been going on since the beginning of civilization up until 140 years ago in this country, and say that it was wrong in hindsight. <

Truly an easy copout!! You seem to imagine that it didn't strike anybody at the time that there was something wrong with slavery. There was lots of moral opposition from the very beginning and lots of suppressed truth. Both Washington and Jefferson manumitted their slaves after their deaths. Think they didn't know it was wrong?

You can argue this all day, but, its a losing argument. What happened was that an economic system was built on slavery and the benefits that it gave 5% of the southern population were too great to be given up by most of them. So, they invented justifications and rationalizations for what they were doing to ease their very guilty minds.

BTW, the new AG thinks that Jeff Davis was a patriot. What a sick view of history. I can buy that RE LEE and a few others were motivated by a sense of duty to home, friends, family. But, Jeff Davis was a leader in the secession movement, tratorously sent munitions to southern states while Secretary of War(of the US) so that they would have the needed resources to launch their ill advised plan, while the whole time justifying slavery to make his lifestyle OK. The man was as low a form of life as one could find and if Hell really exists he is surely resident there now...
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