tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post2930810563716051757..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: Glenn Beck, the Slave Power Conspiracy, and the Paranoid StyleRandallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-83496280499744725182014-09-14T15:41:24.333-04:002014-09-14T15:41:24.333-04:00The real conspiracy was that of certain northern p...The real conspiracy was that of certain northern power brokers to destroy the sovereignty of the States. Lincoln was a great pick to carry out that task. Resident Skeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649813414753836471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-42215752289067783662014-09-14T15:39:08.570-04:002014-09-14T15:39:08.570-04:00HCR there never was a plan to build massive slave ...HCR there never was a plan to build massive slave plantations in the territories on the part of the South. This was another piece of fiction invented by anti-southern bigots who really did not want blacks in the territories period. What few slaves that would have migrated with their masters would have been those who wouldn't have accepted freedom had it been offered, house slaves and such. There would not have been a "spread of slavery" as such because the actual number of slaves would have remained the same. Their disbursement simply would have changed.Resident Skeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649813414753836471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-38808761234644455512010-11-17T20:54:11.004-05:002010-11-17T20:54:11.004-05:00I have agree with "hcr". Well said. I w...I have agree with "hcr". Well said. I would add with the 3/5 of the enslaved population counted for representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, the slave states held more political power in proportion to their political numbers. Perhaps it was not a "conspiracy", but there was definitely a pro-slavery power block.Ruel Eskelsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11260328518856486094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-27477183005734822992010-11-17T10:30:17.605-05:002010-11-17T10:30:17.605-05:00It seems to me this thesis breaks on the rock of t...It seems to me this thesis breaks on the rock of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and what followed it. With that act, Southern slaveholders REALLY DID overturn thirty years of law to spread slavery to the West. They REALLY DID pressure the president to back a pro-slavery government in Kansas. They REALLY DID rewrite history in the Dred Scott decision. These weren't paranoid Northern fantasies; they happened. It is no accident that the abolitionists were largely ignored in the North, but that the Kansas-Nebraska Act galvanized the North's great thinkers, including but certainly not limited to Abraham Lincoln, as well as a majority of Northerners, to oppose this dramatic power grab.hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.com