I don't try and rehash history by today's standards, or wish I could get in a time machine and go back save the world from its wicked past. It is what it is and was the result of the times past as they were. As a Christian, I know all that has come to pass is God's will and has meaning that either has been shown or will be shown in His time. I do believe that the War of Northern Invasion was God's price for the wickedness of black enslavement by a Christian country that had lost its way and sailed far from the shore. To me, that is the lesson to be learned from the black slavery chapter of our American history and needs to be kept in mind today as we sail once again far for the shore.
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> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:40:54 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: "The Monster of Monticello"
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> > From: Jeff Southmayd
> > As you are undoubtedly aware, Dred Scott was the law of the land
> > (United States) at that point and the Fugitive Slave Law in full effect.
> > Slaves were chattel property and from a legal standpoint returning
> > them to their owners was little more than returning a stray horse or
> > cow to its owner, and in fact required under the statute of federal
> > marshalls. I think some may need to take a couple PC nuetralizing pills
> > when discussing slavery during this period in our history to try to get
> > to some level of objectivity.
>
> Diehard southern defenders of the indefensible regularly seek shelter in
> antebellum law, evading admitting that even within the understanding of that
> day, the laws of nature and of nature's god were clearly if highly
> imperfectly recognized, and that so were the grotesqueness and moral filth
> of the manmade laws of slavery. The charge of "political correctness" is
> often a dodge used by evaders of common decency--for example, by those who
> dehumanize fellow Americans who were enslaved. (Sometimes they also use the
> Catch-22 of the filthy "law" to argue that those countrymen weren't citizens
> and so weren't even Americans. Sheesh.) I've always thought that what we get
> from Mr. Southmayd is mainly button-pushing, and that it's important not to
> take it seriously. But the problem with that is that this kind of warped
> thinking is also contributing, indirectly but importantly, to the
> mishandling of Fort Monroe, about which more in another message.
>
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