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In reply to the discussion: That's it. I've cancelled all future recordings on my DVR of the Rachel Maddow Show. [View all]Get over yourself!
I never defended them. Who has SEVERE comprehension issues? I simply stated that all the Founding Fathers were not all the monsters you claim them to be- even after you admitted you knew very little about them!
Lincoln's opinion:
The founding fathers, said Lincoln, had opposed slavery. They adopted a Declaration of Independence that pronounced all men created equal. They enacted the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banning slavery from the vast Northwest Territory. To be sure, many of the founders owned slaves. But they asserted their hostility to slavery in principle while tolerating it temporarily in practice. That was why they did not mention the words "slave" or "slavery" in the Constitution, but referred only to "persons held to service." "Thus, the thing is hid away, in the constitution," said Lincoln, "just as an afflicted man hides away a wen or a cancer, which he dares not cut out at once, lest he bleed to death; with the promise, nevertheless, that the cutting may begin at the end of a given time." The first step was to prevent the spread of this cancer, which the fathers took with the Northwest Ordinance, the prohibition of the African slave trade in 1807, and the Missouri Compromise restriction of 1820. The second was to begin a process of gradual emancipation, which the generation of the fathers had accomplished in the states north of Maryland.
I bet you think Lincoln was rotten too!
What the Founders Said About Slavery
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/quotes/slavery.html
Read the following! I dare you!
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=122
I am sure you won't- you would never seek out truth! You are way too comfortable in your imaginary little world!
Never let facts get in you way!