The Founders Did Hate Slavery

Even though some still held slaves when the Constitution was written, they all wanted to eradicate it. George Stephanopolous (who lied to his own diary) “called Michelle Bachmann out,” saying categorically that the founders did NOT want to eliminate slavery, but HE was proven wrong (again) the very next day, when this came up: “The founding fathers, said Lincoln, had opposed slavery. They adopted a Declaration of Independence that pronounced all men created equal. They enacted the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banning slavery from the vast Northwest Territory. To be sure, many of the founders owned slaves. But they asserted their hostility to slavery in principle while tolerating it temporarily (as they hoped) in practice. That was why they did not mention the words ‘slave’ or ‘slavery’ in the Constitution, but referred only to ‘persons held to service.’ ‘Thus, the thing is hid away, in the constitution,’ said Lincoln, ‘just as an afflicted man hides away a wen or a cancer, which he dares not cut out at once, lest he bleed to death; with the promise, nevertheless, that the cutting may begin at the end of a given time.’

"The first step was to prevent the spread of this cancer, which the fathers took with the Northwest Ordinance, the prohibition of the African slave trade in 1807, and the Missouri Compromise restriction of 1820. The second was to begin a process of gradual emancipation, which the generation of the fathers had accomplished in the states north of Maryland.”(Princeton's James M. McPherson in the Battle Cry of Freedom) This is an example of another liberal method to change history by making UNprovable statements without attribution, which are easily DISproven with very little research, which is not necessarily available to a candidate at the moment the question is raised. They know this, but they also know that most people will never see the new proof and the unproven statement will stand. Rep. Bachmann is due an apology, but don't look for it to happen any time soon. (Just common sense)