It's Not An Easy Thing To Be A Slave

On This Day In History
1861: Crittenden Compromise is killed in the Senate

Quote Of The Day
"The Crittenden resolutions have been voted down again and again. Is there any other proposition which will win, that the South can accept? If not - there comes war -and woe to the wives and daughters of our land; beauty will be but an incentive to crime, and plunder but pay for John Brown raids. Let our citizens be prepared for the worst, it may come."
(George Whitcomb, editorial, Charleston Courier, February 1, 1861.)

How do you compromise with people who want the legal right to own slaves? It must be like trying to compromise with people who want the legal right to practice rape.

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Ya tvoy rabotnik."
The Robots