Monty Wrote:
HaqDiesel Wrote:
Spade Kitty Wrote:
well, it's a good thing it didsn't remind you of
this at first
Did Henry Clay have a hand in that?
No. He wasn't around for the drafting of the Constitution, and its three-fifths clause regarding African-American slave non-citizenship (but population of A.A. still counting toward electoral college).
Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 did prohibit slave sales in the District of Columbia, and slavery in California; meanwhile, it allowed for slave-wranglers to enter the Northern free-states to capture run-away slaves.
Pretty even, huh?
You sure on this? I know he was instrumental in the Missouri Compromise, which basically said that Missouri would be added as a slave state, and no new territories would be allowed to have slaves...
And Haq, you'd almost always be right in assuming that Henry Clay was part of any pre-Civil War compromise, holmes was a Senator for nearly 50 years, and being from a border state he had Southern sensibilities, but knew he had to make things work with northerners, too. Pretty much kept us out of Civil War at least twice, and that is why the "know-nothings" of the 1850s were so sorry, they couldn't do the work of people like Clay, both sides were extremely polarized and uncompromising, leading to intractibility and eventually, War; remind you of anything going on these days?
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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
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