Read all of that post. Here's the rest you conveniently ignore:Once again what comes across is your lib-retarded, counterfactual Yankee bias in that you keep pretending that it wasn't a shrill and extremely vocal minority who were abolitionists on moral grounds, Old-THUMPER. The fact is, it wasn't just a "few" 19th century Yankees who evoked the same level of racism as that expressed in the 19th century South, Old-THUMPER: it was the majority, e.g., Ohio's Congressmen Clement Vallandigham and Alexander Long. General Grant -- without whom Mr. Lincoln would have lost the war -- had slaves on his farm in Missouri, Old-THUMPER. And they were not freed until 1865, Old-THUMPER.
"Actually, I haven't argued the fact that some northerners are culpable. I conceded that point long ago. But I did (and do) take exception to IB's arguments that the northern slave ship captains were guilty but the southern slave owners were morally fine. And I pointed out that for every slave in the Union states there were thousands and thousands in the Confederate states--as the defense department used to say about the Soviets, "quantity has a quality all its own".
Once again what comes across is your anger that Dixie was fleeced by northern businessmen--not one shred of decency to decry southern plantation slave owners. Still not one. More proof that nickles going into northern pockets bothers you far more than slavery, lynchings, and the like. You are pathetic, and your lackeys like IIFFy and LL are apparently so in awe of you they follow your lead. Originally Posted by Old-T
Further, Old-THUMPER, every time you initiate these exchanges you persistently discount how for every Southern slave owner there was a whole passel of Yankees earning a nickel off every dime earned on the backs of slaves, Old-THUMPER; hence, that "quality" you keep ignoring equates to 50-50 complicity, Old-THUMPER. BTW, if you genuinely accepted how complicit racists Yankees were in maintaining that peculiar institution, Old-THUMPER, you wouldn't start in with your bombastic, **immutable-morality** diatribes.