Remembering Robert E. Lee: American Patriot and Southern Hero

The Constitution and the law were on the side of the national government.

No provisions of the Constitution permitted secession.

The South resisted lawful, constitutional authority, and the Old South was executed for treason.
 
Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote

Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.
 
The Constitution and the law were on the side of the national government.

No provisions of the Constitution permitted secession.

The South resisted lawful, constitutional authority, and the Old South was executed for treason.

Totally wrong, Fakey. Your believe that anything not expressly permitted by the Constitution is prohibited couldn't be more idiotic, or totalitarian for that matter.

You're a boot-licking troll who spouts Lincoln cult dogma.
 
Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote

Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I would love for good god fearing black people who worked hard and raise their families could own white racists for just one generation. No two! Because part of the hell black people went through was knowing their kids would be slaves after they died.

I don't know why more slaves didn't massacre their owners and their families.

Two wrongs make a right? Is that what you learned in kindergarten? The rest of us were taught the opposite.

Why are you such a racist? Why is slavery only evil when white people do it? What kind of racist, bigoted asshole are you?

These Lincoln cultist have the moral code of thugs or 5-year-olds, I can't decide which.
 
Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote

Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.

You always have before, because you defend the South.
 
Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote

Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.
You defend the confederacy, whose cause and stated purpose to form was to preserve, protect, defend and expand slavery - and they elevated the institution to something they glorified on their currency.

You can't unstick that ugly off you, no matter how you try.
 
Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote

Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.

You always have before, because you defend the South.

I don't defend the South over slavery, moron. I only defend it over the claim that they started the war or that they were "traitors." Slavery could have been ended without slaughtering 850,000 people, as it was done in every other country in the world. Unfortunately Lincoln wanted war so he could mulct the South of its wealth.
 
Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote

Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.
You defend the confederacy, whose cause and stated purpose to form was to preserve, protect, defend and expand slavery - and they elevated the institution to something they glorified on their currency.

You can't unstick that ugly off you, no matter how you try.

Pointing out that Lincoln had no justification for invading the South is not defending slavery, no matter how much some sleazy lying scumbag like you insists it is. You can't win the argument based on the facts, so in typical liberal fashion you resort to the most despicable kind of personal attacks.

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Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote

Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.

You always have before, because you defend the South.

I don't defend the South over slavery, moron. I only defend them over the claim that they started the war or that they were "traitors." Slavery could have been ended without slaughtering 850,000, as it was done in every other country in the world. Unfortunately Lincoln wanted war so he could mulct the South of its wealth.
How would it have ended? It continued for seventy years after the constitution was written.

There were four million slaves in the South, out of a total population of 9 million.

Some states had majority slave populations. How?

There was murder and mayhem and horrific battles in Kansas and Missouri going on for years before by the slavery and anti-slavery factions, and the new territories soon to be admitted were eyed with a twinkle, as the South hoped to make them slave Territories. They were even seeking to expand Slavery to Mexico, Cuba, Latin America...

It was all about expanding it -- now tell me just *how* would slavery have ended?

How?
 
Anti american should a been hung after Lincoln got shot.

Notice no coins or stamps have his face?
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.

You always have before, because you defend the South.

I don't defend the South over slavery, moron. I only defend them over the claim that they started the war or that they were "traitors." Slavery could have been ended without slaughtering 850,000, as it was done in every other country in the world. Unfortunately Lincoln wanted war so he could mulct the South of its wealth.
How would it have ended? It continued for seventy years after the constitution was written.

There were four million slaves in the South, out of a total population of 9 million.

Some states had majority slave populations. How?

There was murder and mayhem and horrific battles in Kansas and Missouri going on for years before by the slavery and anti-slavery factions, and the new territories soon to be admitted were eyed with a twinkle, as the South hoped to make them slave Territories. They were even seeking to expand Slavery to Mexico, Cuba, Latin America...

It was all about expanding it -- now tell me just *how* would slavery have ended?

How?

Every country in the world, save the United States, abolished slavery without shedding a significant amount of blood. Even the states in the North abolished it. So why would anyone imagine it couldn't have been done? Because they have to defend their mass murdering cult hero, Abraham Lincoln.

Greatest Emancipations How the West Abolished Slavery Jim Powell 9780230605923 Amazon.com Books
 
This was the money of the Confederacy

confeddollar.jpg


Slaves working the field --

This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.

I don't defend slavery, asshole.

You always have before, because you defend the South.

I don't defend the South over slavery, moron. I only defend them over the claim that they started the war or that they were "traitors." Slavery could have been ended without slaughtering 850,000, as it was done in every other country in the world. Unfortunately Lincoln wanted war so he could mulct the South of its wealth.
How would it have ended? It continued for seventy years after the constitution was written.

There were four million slaves in the South, out of a total population of 9 million.

Some states had majority slave populations. How?

There was murder and mayhem and horrific battles in Kansas and Missouri going on for years before by the slavery and anti-slavery factions, and the new territories soon to be admitted were eyed with a twinkle, as the South hoped to make them slave Territories. They were even seeking to expand Slavery to Mexico, Cuba, Latin America...

It was all about expanding it -- now tell me just *how* would slavery have ended?

How?

Every country in the world, save the United States, abolished slavery without shedding a significant amount of blood. Even the states in the North abolished it. So why would anyone imagine it couldn't have been done? Because they have to defend their mass murdering cult hero, Abraham Lincoln.
Yes, and no one fought harder to preserve and expand it than the South. That's why they were willing to fight a bloody battle to keep and maintain it.
Are you under some bizarre notion the South had intentions to abolish slavery? It was their Cornerstone.

All take notice: birdpat was not able to answer the question.

You see, when he has to think about it, he knows Slavery would not have ended on its own.

And as I showed earlier, even *after* slavery was abolished, the South continued to enslave and restrict the rights of blacks, for nearly a hundred years after.

But if you want to try again bripat, and tell us HOW

Just exactly HOW it would have ended on its own, I'll bet you some people will ready that post

(and likely laugh, but I think it might be worth a try...)

G'head.
 
& Your link to a book is useless -- the premise, as I read it, was how anti-slavery movements were critical in abolishing slavery.

That doesn't apply to the South -- as the Southern states BANNED any anti-slavery speech, press or association.

They made it illegal to print anti-slavery works, to talk of it, to gather in any groups to discuss it -- and they did this looong before the Civil War broke out.
 
& Your link to a book is useless -- the premise, as I read it, was how anti-slavery movements were critical in abolishing slavery.

That doesn't apply to the South -- as the Southern states BANNED any anti-slavery speech, press or association.

They made it illegal to print anti-slavery works, to talk of it, to gather in any groups to discuss it -- and they did this looong before the Civil War broke out.

Of course, your theory about the premise of the book is wrong. I don't know where you get this shit because it certainly wasn't in the description of the book.

Here's one way that you're too stupid to think of: The federal government could have purchased the freedom of all the slaves in the South. That certainly would have been cheaper than the Civil War.
 
Study the Texans' reactions to "abolitionists" supposedly stirring up anti-slavery opinions among the slaves. Lynchings everywhere.

There was no Southern movement for abolition.
 
& Your link to a book is useless -- the premise, as I read it, was how anti-slavery movements were critical in abolishing slavery.

That doesn't apply to the South -- as the Southern states BANNED any anti-slavery speech, press or association.

They made it illegal to print anti-slavery works, to talk of it, to gather in any groups to discuss it -- and they did this looong before the Civil War broke out.

Here's one way, that you're too stupid to think of: The federal government could have purchased the freedom of all the slaves in the South. That certainly would have been cheaper than the Civil War.

That suggestion did not even float in the Border States.
 
& Your link to a book is useless -- the premise, as I read it, was how anti-slavery movements were critical in abolishing slavery.

That doesn't apply to the South -- as the Southern states BANNED any anti-slavery speech, press or association.

They made it illegal to print anti-slavery works, to talk of it, to gather in any groups to discuss it -- and they did this looong before the Civil War broke out.

Of course, your theory about the premise of the book is wrong.

Here's one way, that you're too stupid to think of: The federal government could have purchased the freedom of all the slaves in the South. That certainly would have been cheaper than the Civil War.
Study the Texans' reactions to "abolitionists" supposedly stirring up anti-slavery opinions among the slaves. Lynchings everywhere.

There was no Southern movement for abolition.

That really isn't necessary. There was no abolitionist movement in Brazil or Cuba either. Somehow other countries managed to abolish slavery. The idea that the U.S. couldn't have done it is preposterous. We had already done it in half the states of the union.
 
& Your link to a book is useless -- the premise, as I read it, was how anti-slavery movements were critical in abolishing slavery.

That doesn't apply to the South -- as the Southern states BANNED any anti-slavery speech, press or association.

They made it illegal to print anti-slavery works, to talk of it, to gather in any groups to discuss it -- and they did this looong before the Civil War broke out.

Here's one way, that you're too stupid to think of: The federal government could have purchased the freedom of all the slaves in the South. That certainly would have been cheaper than the Civil War.

That suggestion did not even float in the Border States.

ROFL! What, exactly, was proposed?

It's a method that worked in numerous other location:

Compensated emancipation - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Transition away from slavery

Compensated emancipation was typically enacted as part of an act that outlawed slavery outright or established a scheme whereby slavery would eventually be phased out. It frequently was accompanied or preceded by laws which approached gradual emancipation by granting freedom to those born to slaves after a given date.[1]

Among the European powers, slavery was primarily an issue with their overseas colonies. The British Empire enacted a policy of compensated Emancipation for its colonies in 1833, followed by Denmark, France in 1848, and the Netherlands in 1863.[1] Most South American and Caribbean nations emancipated slavery through compensated schemes in the 1850s and 1860s, while Brazil passed a plan for gradual, compensated emancipation in 1871, and Cuba followed in 1880 after having enacted freedom at birth a decade earlier.[1]
 
& Your link to a book is useless -- the premise, as I read it, was how anti-slavery movements were critical in abolishing slavery.

That doesn't apply to the South -- as the Southern states BANNED any anti-slavery speech, press or association.

They made it illegal to print anti-slavery works, to talk of it, to gather in any groups to discuss it -- and they did this looong before the Civil War broke out.

Here's one way, that you're too stupid to think of: The federal government could have purchased the freedom of all the slaves in the South. That certainly would have been cheaper than the Civil War.

That suggestion did not even float in the Border States.

Horshit. It wasn't proposed on a national level until after the Civil War was already in full swing:

United States

In the United States, the regulation of slavery was predominantly a state function. Northern states followed a course of gradual emancipation. During the Civil War, in 1861, President Lincoln drafted an act to be introduced before the legislature of Delaware, one of the four non-free states that remained loyal,[2] for compensated emancipation. However this was narrowly defeated. Lincoln also was behind national legislation towards the same end, but the southern states, now in full rebellion, ignored the proposals.[3][4]

Only in the District of Columbia, which fell under direct Federal auspices, was compensated emancipation enacted. On April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders to free their slaves, with the government paying owners an average of about $300 for each. In 1863 state legislation towards compensated emancipation in Maryland failed to pass, as did an attempt to include it in a newly written Missouri constitution.[1][5][6][7]
 
Fuckwit, if even the Border states refused it (before the war) -- a place where slavery was not nearly as enmeshed as the other Southern Slavery states -- the other states would not have even considered compensated Emancipation.

They had over three Billion of their wealth tied up in slaves.

That is yes, with a B. Three BILLION. Not in today dollars, adjusted for inflation -- Then dollars. Three BILLION in 1860 dollars.

If you wanted to buy all the railroads, factories and banks in the entire country at that time, it would have only cost you about $2.5 billion.

----> slaves were by far the largest concentration of property in the country.
A stunning figure.

Think on that.

The South was not about to give that up.

It was. About. Slavery. Preserving, protecting & expanding. Human beings as property.

Millions of these people who were *bred* as animals are -- with values in the BILLIONS.

Yes, It was. About. Slavery. Preserving, protecting & expanding. Human beings as property.

And they are *still fighting the battle----to this day, it appears. Even though they lost the war.
 

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