Sure bro, keep telling yourself that fantasy......
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth…
They were talking about slavery...free labor........not manufacturing capacity in Delaware....
But hey, that's just one slave holding state...I am sure others didn't claim slavery was the greatest "ECONOMIC" interest in the world....
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"We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property"
Mississippi was also talking about slavery......they were talking about how their economy was predicated on the slavery into perpetuity....
"But they know the value of parchment rights in treacherous hands, and therefore they refuse to commit their own to the rulers whom the North offers us. Why? Because by their declared principles and policy they have outlawed $3,000,000,000 of our property in the common territories of the Union"
Doh!
well, they were just democrats anyway....what do they know.....Fact is, England forced the US to have slaves, even tho we supposedly fought a war against England over taxes "Forced on us by England" -- but decided slavery was A-OK to keep...
I'll never understand the need to delude yourselves with these fantasies....it is much easier to say, slavery in the US was bad WITHOUT saying "but but they everybody was doing it!!" -- the US is the greatest country in the world by being "BETTER" than other countries, not adopting the evils of other countries and carrying on that evil...and no other country "FORCED US" to create a racial caste system for the next 200 years either....but here we are.....whining about a song that was originally written championing the institution of slavery......that's progress
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