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- From: zygote@cs.uiuc.edu (The seed of all life)
- Subject: Re: State's Rights
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:48:52 GMT
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- colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) writes:
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- >>That's bullshit and you know it. What I said is that Washington played
- >>an ACTIVE part in slavery, not a passive one like you claimed. You are
- >>just making accusations to create a distraction from the obvious.
-
- >It may be bullshit, but I wouldn't say it if I thought it was. You
- >defend the rights of people to own slaves since it is up to their
-
- No I did not.
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- >state to decide if it was legal or not. As for Washington's active
- >role - it was not active at all. They accepted it IN THE STATES
- >THAT HAD IT. They did not mandate it and they did not force anyone
- >to have it.
-
- What I said is that the Fed. govt. nor any state govt. forced anyone
- to own slaves, but both ACTIVELY protected the practice. If the
- Fugative Slave Act is not an active Federal protection, then what the
- hell is it?
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