http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/house-resolution-of-2-11-1861/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/house-resolution-of-2-11-1861/#comment-35 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:39:31 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=178#comment-35 It also makes it clear how totally hostile the Deep South states were to any attempt to placate them. If all they wanted was to be left alone, these proposals would have done it. What they wanted wasn’t acceptance of slavery were it was; what they wanted was unqualified and unanimous approval of slavery not only where it was now but wherever slaveholders wanted to take their slaves with dissent being ruthlessly suppressed the way it had been within these slave states.

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