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[David Lockmiller]

(06-03-2019 12:19 AM)Steve Wrote:  

(05-23-2019 10:27 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  Final Jeopardy! Round question for Wednesday, May 22, 2019 with Lincoln-related answer:

In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863.

Answer: What is Virginia?

Here are two articles that might be of interest for anybody interested about what happened in Virginia's legislature in 1832:

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Vir...1-1832_The

and

https://kbjournal.org/kuypers_1832_debate_on_slavery

I read some of the text of the second hyperlink. Then, I skipped to the end and read the following paragraph. It really makes one appreciate how well President Lincoln was able to express himself.

A clash occurred throughout the debate between the scenes embraced between the activists and the traditionalists. Both groups seemed to embrace a notion of action based on human free will that could mitigate the dangers of these scenes; unfortunately, the natures of the scenes were so different as to prevent a consubstantial moment where joint action would act for both groups in a society-wide redemptive moment. The best hope for this redemption was in the area of moral concerns, where both groups shared in the substance of an immoral present scene mired in the degrading spectacle of slavery. It is in this area perhaps, where worldviews coalesced, that both activists and traditionalists were able to jointly operate from a realist grammar. In discussing what act to take to remove the present scene, true persuasion operated and the delegates were able to ensconce their arguments in notions of human free will necessary for true moral action. The activists began the debate heavily outnumbered, and in the end, fell only eight votes shy of achieving their goals. Ultimately their idea of a moral act of free will to step out of the moral quagmire of slavery was overshadowed by a compelling vision of the moral quagmire of slavery replaced by, in the eyes of the traditionalists, a deeper moral quagmire of a future Virginia desolate and ruined by emancipation.