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southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social |
Do people know about Congress’s slavery gag rules in the 1830s and 1840s? About Laurens Pinckney and John Quincy Adams?
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A guy named Paul
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That's probably where they got their inspiration
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Martin Schneider
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No!
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Jim
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Obviously here in the south we only know history if there’s a statue (I’ve been assured this is the primary way in which knowledge is transferred). So no.
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Amy West
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Adams’ intentional courting of censure & then use of the censure rules - requiring two weeks of debate - to get around the gag rule leaves me lost in admiration every time I think about it. That was some quality procedural work. And then he got the censure tabled! A hero!
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Michael Fuhlhage
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They ran all the way to the secession crisis in 1860. Also: Southern postmasters confiscated abolitionist publications and logged their senders and destinations.
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Frostellicus
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🙋
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