re: Arguably the greatest speech in American history was delivered 160 years ago today...

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Ho-hum. Just regular boring racism. Sad

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What’s racist about that post?

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with how much truth you’ve managed to stretch in this thread for your own personal gain, it’s hard to tell.

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Personal gain? Lol. What the frick are you talking about?

how so?

or is this like, lincesured ?

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Bruh you getting owned by Klark Kent. Just stop.

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You realize I'm just throwing random shite out there to watch him dance, right?

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GCS taking up for Klark and crazy4lsu approaching his psychotic performance in the Rhodesia thread from earlier this year

Been an enjoyable read

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what a time to be alive. JD5 is definitely winning the Heisman this year.

I bet.

frick yeah street fighter: the movie quote

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It obviously made an impression on you, so much so that you remembered at all, which is pretty weird. For me, it was possibly a Tuesday.

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to be fair, it’s hard to miss you in a thread when you insult multiple posters within a page or so. just on average.

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“For the last forty years, the taxes laid by the Congress of the United States have been laid with a view of subserving the interests of the North. The people of the South have been taxed by duties on imports, not for revenue, but for an object inconsistent with revenue–to promote, by prohibitions, Northern interests in the productions of their mines and manufactures… The people of the Southern States are not only taxed for the benefit of the Northern States, but after the taxes are collected, three-fourths of them are expended at the North.” (Address of South Carolina to the Slaveholding States Convention, 1860)

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“And so with the Southern States, towards the Northern States, in the vital matter of taxation. They are in a minority in Congress. Their representation in Congress, is useless to protect them against unjust taxation; and they are taxed by the people of the North for their benefit, exactly as the people of Great Britain taxed our ancestors in the British parliament for their benefit.” (Address of South Carolina to the Slaveholding States Convention, 1860)

On 30 April 1860, well prior to Lincoln’s election, Representative Sydenham Moore on the floor of the House spoke against the Republican Party’s Morrill Tariff, of which he said was:

“… scarcely less oppressive than was the memorable tariff act of 1828, known throughout the South as the bill of abominations…. Go on, then, gentlemen; pass this odious protective tariff bill; legalize the robbery of the South. We are in a small minority here, and therefore powerless to protect our constituents.”

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“…. despite the South’s past forbearance, the old revolutionary fire may soon be rekindled. God grant, that the example of Hampden, in resisting the illegal tax on ship money, and of our fathers in resisting the illegal though trifling tax of three pence per pound on tea, and of all those who have periled life and fortune in the cause of liberty and independence, may not be lost upon the South; but that every son of hers may so set in the future as to prove to the world that they know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain them.”

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As I have said...anyone who thinks that the Civil War was solely due to slavery is as ignorant as someone who thinks it had absolutely nothing to do with it