alt.war.civil.usa

On Aug 30, 1:51 pm, Cash wrote:
> On Aug 30, 8:24 am, "HWAYNE" wrote:> I suggest that both you and the fool you follow take a look at the following
> > cite. OR, Series IV, volume 2, page 420. It provides a good starting
> > point.
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> So you admit that you believe any black person living in the United
> States in 1863 should be considered a slave. How racist of you.

Bingo.

> Please show where the confederates made a determination that the
> people they kidnapped from Pennsylvania were escaped slaves and not
> freeborn blacks. Keep in mind we have contemporaneous testimony
> already posted that verified many of those kidnapped were in fact
> freeborn blacks.

According to H. Wayne Elliott, African Americans weren't free people.
They were slaves. They had to be. They were black. What made that
the case? Confederate law. Not that the Confederacy, in his "mind,"
had anything to do with slavery.

> > And, by the way, both you and the Fool might do well to look at the very
> > next page and the documeent from Gen. Pillow. Note what he says: "[the
> > Union cavalry] seize all the Negroes they can find." Does intellectual
> > consistency not require that you also condemn the actions of the Union
> > cavalry?
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> You truly are a racist idiot, aren't you? The Federals didn't seize
> those blacks to put them into slavery. They freed them. See the
> Emancipation Proclamation. Only a moronic, racist twit like you would
> think that kidnapping people in order to enslave them was morally
> equivalent to freeing them from slavery.

Bingo.

> You're the only fool in this conversation.

I think saying he's a fool misses a far more serious indictment. This
guy brags about teaching the rules of war to United States military
personnel.