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Originally Posted by blueash
Doing some genealogy work and came across a newspaper published just after Lincoln's election, from Raleigh NC in Nov 1860. I found it fascinating to see the thoughts of the writers and I am posting it here for all:
"If it be true that Lincoln is elected President, stocks of all kinds and property generally will fall in price. A panic runs like fire in dry stubble. Let every business man stand firm, and do all he can to ward off the effects of the panic. Let as little property be sacrificed as possible. Instead of pressing our debtors, or selling property of any kind to provide the means of living or extravagance, let us economize an live on less than heretofore. Let us especially beware of a panic in slave property- Slavery in the States is in no danger. Those persons in the States south of us who are anxious to open the slave trade and import barbarians into this country, would not object to a panic which would reduce the selling prices of slaves in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina to three or four hundred dollars each... It would be unwise to rush slave property into market at a sacrifice on account of Lincoln's election. Let us stand firm, strengthen our defenses in the Union, and keep a strict eye on our slaves. Let us see to it that they are governed better than heretofore at home, so that when away from their homes the may give less trouble to the police. There is no danger to be apprehended from the slaves, if bad white men are watched and kept away from them. Left to themselves, they are contented and happy, and much more loyal and respectable than the abolitionists are themselves. A negro slave who knows his place, and who is faithful to his master, is a gentleman when compared with such white persons as Seward and Sumner."
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RE: SLAVERY
We try to understand or perhaps judge it in our present time. Before all the people waste their time judging me, my family came to the US just before WWI and they had nothing to do with slavery.
FACTS I FIND INTERESTING
1/3 of the worth of the south was in the value of slaves. Right or wrong-WOULD YOU GIVE UP 1/3 OF YOUR NET WORTH?
Slavery was a COMMON PRACTICE. If, you wanted to LEARN a trade, your family would sign you to a SEVEN YEAR contract as an apprentice. YOU WERE ESSENTIALLY A SLAVE FOR SEVEN YEARS. Many people especially Irish people came over as INDENTURED SERVANTS-SLAVES FOR 14 YEARS. In both cases you had NO RIGHTS. You were poorly fed. You were on call 24 hours a day. People were sexually abused. You lived in the barn with the livestock-no heat, poor light from candles.
In our POLITICALLY CORRECTED HISTORY, we have been told LINCOLN freed the slaves. The FACTS are when Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation he was not the leader of the south-JEFFERSON DAVIS was. Lincoln hoped to start SLAVE RIOTS. The slaves had NO CHANCE against the southern army but, Lincoln hoped to tie up Southern Troops KILLING SLAVES so that the troops would not be able to fight the Civil war. In missippi the population was half black slaves. Imagine you were a white living in missippi. Would YOU be joining the bounty hunters going after slaves? Would YOU do nothing? Would you protest against Lincoln or against slavery. PROTESTING AGAINST SLAVERY MADE YOU AN OUTCAST AND COULD WELL COST YOU YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF YOU FAMILY.
I try to understand history by wondering what I would do.
It is easy to say you would BUT WOULD YOU REALLY?