Re: What Happened to The 56 Men Who Signed the Declarationof Independence ?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 7/9/07, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
>
> > > And what was the document freeing all of England's many slaves in all
> > > of its many colonies, benevolent one?
> >
> > It was an act of parliament, long before your civil war.
>
> Hmm...you mean you didn't just *know*?
>
> > > Really, your rants on this subject are getting very old and add
> > > nothing to the debate.
> >
> > If you don't like the heat ...
>
> Exactly my point. What you seem to not understand is that like many,
> I'm the offspring of immigrants - immigrants from just the last
> century. Poor immigrants I might add, so even if we had come here
> before the slaves were freed we'd have been worse off, having our
> freedom but little else.
>
> Further, those who had the money and the power were mostly from your
> blood line, from England. Old families and old money. Money based on a
> market of trade that, at the time (and not for that much longer) was
> based on slavery providing the labor. Money is what the civil war was
> about, slavery would have gone the way of the dodo bird regardless -
> Lincoln only used it as a political tool to keep the British (you) and
> French out of the war (since, after all, they (you) benefited from our
> slaves too and would have sided with the south!).
>
> I've pointed out this hypocrisy before, but I believe you failed to respond...
 
You talk about my bloodline?  My grandparents came from Russia around 
1900. They came to the Land of the Free with nothing but their lives and 
skills, and England welcomed these immigrants and gave them liberty.

So I'm also the offspring of immigrants, as a matter of fact. Poor ones.

The fact remains, England, the true land of the free, abolished the slave
trade and slavery long before "all men are created equal" America.

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