Imagine that. When childish, unreasonable Democrats try to condemn the America they want to unmake (and replace with time-disproven socialist trash) for not abolishing slavery (and thus starting a civil war) while simultaneously taking on the most advanced military power on Earth, they are just being dishonest partisan hacks.
"For those who want to fundamentally transform our nation, the first order of business is to thoroughly discredit our past...With its much-ballyhooed “1619 Project,” the Times is attempting to “reframe American history” by imagining 1619, not 1776, as our nation’s birth year. Why 1619? That’s the year the first African slaves landed in the British colonies of America.
[Quotes:]
-“There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of [slavery].”—George Washington, Letter to Morris, 1786
-“ … [E]very measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States … . I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in abhorrence … .”—John Adams, Letter to Evans, 1819
-“Slavery is … an atrocious debasement of human nature.”—Benjamin Franklin, an Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1789
-“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep [forever] … .”—Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781
-“The laws of certain states … give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property … . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty—and when the captor in war … thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.”—Alexander Hamilton, Philo Camillus No. 2, 1795
-“We have seen the mere distinction of [color] made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.”—James Madison, Records of the Federal Convention, 1787
-“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations [cannot] be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”—George Mason, James Madison’s Notes on the Federal Convention, 1787
-“The benevolent Creator and Father of Men, having given to them all an equal Right to Life, Liberty and Property, no Sovereign Power on Earth can justly deprive them of either … . It is our Duty therefore, both as free Citizens and Christians, not only to regard with compassion the injustice done to those among us who are held as slaves, but endeavor, by lawful ways and means, to enable them to share equally with us in that civil and religious Liberty with which an indulgent Providence has blessed these States; and to which these, our Brethren are by nature, as much entitled as ourselves.”—Preamble of The New York Manumissions Society Charter, co-founded by John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, 1785
What Our Founders Really Thought of Slavery—and Why The New York Times Is Wrong
[Quotes:]
-“There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of [slavery].”—George Washington, Letter to Morris, 1786
-“ … [E]very measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States … . I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in abhorrence … .”—John Adams, Letter to Evans, 1819
-“Slavery is … an atrocious debasement of human nature.”—Benjamin Franklin, an Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1789
-“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep [forever] … .”—Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781
-“The laws of certain states … give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property … . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty—and when the captor in war … thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.”—Alexander Hamilton, Philo Camillus No. 2, 1795
-“We have seen the mere distinction of [color] made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.”—James Madison, Records of the Federal Convention, 1787
-“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations [cannot] be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”—George Mason, James Madison’s Notes on the Federal Convention, 1787
-“The benevolent Creator and Father of Men, having given to them all an equal Right to Life, Liberty and Property, no Sovereign Power on Earth can justly deprive them of either … . It is our Duty therefore, both as free Citizens and Christians, not only to regard with compassion the injustice done to those among us who are held as slaves, but endeavor, by lawful ways and means, to enable them to share equally with us in that civil and religious Liberty with which an indulgent Providence has blessed these States; and to which these, our Brethren are by nature, as much entitled as ourselves.”—Preamble of The New York Manumissions Society Charter, co-founded by John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, 1785
What Our Founders Really Thought of Slavery—and Why The New York Times Is Wrong
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