Kendall--

Never had that one brought up before. It will be several days before I will be able to look at the Const. & respond, but in the meantime--was that an issue in the 1850's?? I am curious to know more. (I thought we tried state currencies at one point and gave them up as a bad idea.)

More for everybody: All ye who harp upon how few the slaveowners were need to find and read William Cash, "The Mind of the South," wherein it is argued that one does not have to own slaves in order to support the institution of slavery.

That many northern men did not like Africans enough to risk their lives to free them--and many did not--does not mean that the war would have started had not the South armed in the defense of its "peculiar institution."