The Republican attempt to Make Slavery a Constitutional Right

Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.
I guess from their POV, they were attempting to save white wealth and lives by sacrificing black lives and wealth. Not much different then the gop now and voter suppression.
 
There is no irony that Lincoln did not oppose the measure, he was in fact a racist and acknowledged the constitutionality of slavery in his first inaugural address.
Lincoln was a practical politician.

As early as the 1850s, Lincoln was attacked as an abolitionist. But while many abolitionists emphasized the sinfulness of individual owners, Lincoln did not, although he did publicly condemn the institution of slavery.[3] Lincoln was married to Mary Todd Lincoln, the daughter of a slaveowner from Kentucky. While William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator newspaper, and a small but growing group of abolitionists called for total, immediate abolition of slavery ("immediatism"), Lincoln focused on the practical goal of preventing the creation of new slave states and specifically blocking the expansion of slavery into the new Western territories.[4]--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery#Views_on_African_Americans
 
Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.

Democrats had in their party platform at that time support for slavery, lying racist sack of shit.

This was 160 years ago. Since then, Democrats were the party of segregation, Jim Crow, the KKK, lynching, cross burning. But none of that matters to you because government handouts.

You're a trashy prostitute
The South used to vote democrat. Lincoln was the republican. Only the clueless and Causeless right wing appeal to ignorance and allege they are Right simply because they are on the right wing.
 
There is no irony that Lincoln did not oppose the measure, he was in fact a racist and acknowledged the constitutionality of slavery in his first inaugural address.
I don't think that you could find a single person alive in 1860 who wasn't a racist by today's standards. Hell, I don't think you could find one in 1941 either. People like MLK and the freedom riders changed societal attitudes towards black Americans, unfortunately the conduct of some black Americans over the past decade are changing societal attitudes back.
 
Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.
Lots of effort was put into stopping wars at the expense of slaves. The only guy of that age and before who actually gave a flying fuck about stopping the practice was Thomas Jefferson.
No, that is a lie. Jefferson didn't give a damn about ending slavery.

When people start talking about race, there are just some simple realities that cannot be denied. If you are white and don't like how you are portrayed, start thinking about how unpleasant it really is for us who are not white to be portrayed as weak inferior people who got conquered by a supposedly superior race and culture. It is not a pleasant subject. For this to end we all must face the unpleasantness.

"The idea that the South fought a war so that it could be left in peace to have slavery merely within its settled boundaries is sometimes voiced as a cherished myth today, but it does not fit the facts on the ground, nor did anyone think so at the time. Quite the contrary: the war was fought over the expansion of slavery."

Ned & Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

The major problem with the excuses is that America had every chance not to implement slavery. We are told how the so-called founders of this country created the way to end slavery when they wrote the constitution. Many will cite the fact they made the importation of slaves illegal by 1808 as evidence. But refusing to stop importing slaves did not end the slaving business in the United States. What it produced was an original American industry-slave breeding.

"During the fifty-three years from the prohibition of the African slave trade by federal law in 1808 to the debacle of the Confederate States of America in 1861, the Southern economy depended on the functioning of a slave-breeding industry, of which Virginia was the number-one supplier."

Ned & Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

You see, if America had continued to import slaves, it would have diluted the market thereby driving down the costs of slaves. Slave sellers could not have this. So instead of the truth, we are told that “our nearer to God than thee” founders in all their benevolent glory, looked towards a future whereby slavery would be no more. According to some, the so-called founders had a dream whereby little black boys and little black girls would no longer be enslaved because of the color of their skin. This is the story we are supposed to believe. However, reality does not show that.

“In fact, most American slaves were not kidnapped on another continent. Though over 12.7 million Africans were forced onto ships to the Western hemisphere, estimates only have 400,000-500,000 landing in present-day America. How then to account for the four million black slaves who were tilling fields in 1860? “The South,” the Sublettes write, “did not only produce tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton as commodities for sale; it produced people.” Slavers called slave-breeding “natural increase,” but there was nothing natural about producing slaves; it took scientific management. Thomas Jefferson bragged to George Washington that the birth of black children was increasing Virginia’s capital stock by four percent annually.”

Ned & Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

To be blunt, America had slave breeding “factories” where slaves were forced to breed. I call them factories but in most cases they are described as farms. These “farms” generally had at least a 2:1 female to male ratio. In some states, slave production was the number 1 industry. Virginia led the nation in slave production and PRESIDENT Thomas Jefferson was one of the main producers. The slave breeding industry has been hidden and left out of the annals of American history. This was done on purpose.
 
There is no irony that Lincoln did not oppose the measure, he was in fact a racist and acknowledged the constitutionality of slavery in his first inaugural address.
I don't think that you could find a single person alive in 1860 who wasn't a racist by today's standards. Hell, I don't think you could find one in 1941 either. People like MLK and the freedom riders changed societal attitudes towards black Americans, unfortunately the conduct of some black Americans over the past decade are changing societal attitudes back.
This is a bs excuse that has no merit. There actually were whites alive then who were not racists.
 
Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.

First you lead with Republicans are dishonest people, and right away I know you're projecting right.

But then you go onto validate my first instinct by blaming Republicans for slavery when you know very well it was YOUR party of preference that made slavery part of their daily lives. And that's ironic, because today PROGS make racism part of their daily lives.

The party of slavery only changed tactics. Tell blacks again how they're victims and should be pitied. Show them how families aren't important because welfare is an adequate replacement aimed to keep blacks in their place. Give blacks another reason to destroy their own communities. That's your Demonicrats in a nutshell.
Republicans introduced this amendment and it would have made slavery a constitutional right. Just face the truth. Your last paragraph is a joke since the majority of every form of welfare has gone to whites.
 
It's his best deflection... :rolleyes-41:
Nah, it is what you call debunking the republican lie. Your party tried making slavery a constitutionally protected right.
And what did the democrats do? You spend an awful lot of time and effort complaining about what Republicans might have done over a hundred years ago, but I don't see a whole lot of criticism about democrats. Do they just get a free pass?
 
Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.

First you lead with Republicans are dishonest people, and right away I know you're projecting right.

But then you go onto validate my first instinct by blaming Republicans for slavery when you know very well it was YOUR party of preference that made slavery part of their daily lives. And that's ironic, because today PROGS make racism part of their daily lives.

The party of slavery only changed tactics. Tell blacks again how they're victims and should be pitied. Show them how families aren't important because welfare is an adequate replacement aimed to keep blacks in their place. Give blacks another reason to destroy their own communities. That's your Demonicrats in a nutshell.
Republicans introduced this amendment and it would have made slavery a constitutional right. Just face the truth. Your last paragraph is a joke since the majority of every form of welfare has gone to whites.
No, you damn liar. They put forth a re-worded amendment.
 
There is no irony that Lincoln did not oppose the measure, he was in fact a racist and acknowledged the constitutionality of slavery in his first inaugural address.
I don't think that you could find a single person alive in 1860 who wasn't a racist by today's standards. Hell, I don't think you could find one in 1941 either. People like MLK and the freedom riders changed societal attitudes towards black Americans, unfortunately the conduct of some black Americans over the past decade are changing societal attitudes back.
My attitude was changed when I was a child. My grandmother's vacation Bible taught children in the church a little song with these words:

"Jesus loves the little children,​
All the children of the world,​
Red and yellow, black and white,​
They are precious in his sight​
Jesus loves the children of the world."​
That little song of the fifties followed me all my life, and I never could figure out racism as a way of salvation. In my heart, all people are loved as a parent's precious child by the Lord and creator of mankind, whether we can sort it out or not, it is a given in God's kingdom in my mind. And I am not offended by other people's different opinions, because not everyone hears the same drummer at such an early age. :dunno:
 
Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.

First you lead with Republicans are dishonest people, and right away I know you're projecting right.

But then you go onto validate my first instinct by blaming Republicans for slavery when you know very well it was YOUR party of preference that made slavery part of their daily lives. And that's ironic, because today PROGS make racism part of their daily lives.

The party of slavery only changed tactics. Tell blacks again how they're victims and should be pitied. Show them how families aren't important because welfare is an adequate replacement aimed to keep blacks in their place. Give blacks another reason to destroy their own communities. That's your Demonicrats in a nutshell.
Republicans introduced this amendment and it would have made slavery a constitutional right. Just face the truth. Your last paragraph is a joke since the majority of every form of welfare has gone to whites.
No, you damn liar. They put forth a re-worded amendment.
BS.
 
Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.

First you lead with Republicans are dishonest people, and right away I know you're projecting right.

But then you go onto validate my first instinct by blaming Republicans for slavery when you know very well it was YOUR party of preference that made slavery part of their daily lives. And that's ironic, because today PROGS make racism part of their daily lives.

The party of slavery only changed tactics. Tell blacks again how they're victims and should be pitied. Show them how families aren't important because welfare is an adequate replacement aimed to keep blacks in their place. Give blacks another reason to destroy their own communities. That's your Demonicrats in a nutshell.
Republicans introduced this amendment and it would have made slavery a constitutional right. Just face the truth. Your last paragraph is a joke since the majority of every form of welfare has gone to whites.
No, you damn liar. They put forth a re-worded amendment.
BS.
Indeed it is. Buchanan, a Dem, even signed the congressional joint resolution on it.
 
Many "Republicans" in this forum are truly dishonest people.

The Corwin Amendment

The Corwin Amendment, also called the “Slavery Amendment,” was a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1861 but never ratified by the states that would have banned the federal government from abolishing the institution of slavery in the states where it existed at the time. Considering it a last-ditch effort to prevent the looming Civil War, supporters of the Corwin Amendment hoped it would prevent the southern states that had not already done so from seceding from the Union. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln did not oppose the measure.

The operative section of the Corwin Amendment states:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

In referring to enslavement as “domestic institutions” and “persons held to labor or service,” rather than by the specific word “slavery,” the amendment reflects wording in the draft of the Constitution considered by delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which referred to enslaved people as “Person held to Service."


Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin introduced the Corwin Amendment, both were republicans.

Democrats had in their party platform at that time support for slavery, lying racist sack of shit.

This was 160 years ago. Since then, Democrats were the party of segregation, Jim Crow, the KKK, lynching, cross burning. But none of that matters to you because government handouts.

You're a trashy prostitute
The South used to vote democrat. Lincoln was the republican. Only the clueless and Causeless right wing appeal to ignorance and allege they are Right simply because they are on the right wing.
We aren’t talking about the same republucan and democratic parties in the 1800s .
The Gop has change in the past two decades from a party of science to a party delusional money and power grabbers.
 

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