-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> No, actually, I don't believe that.  I just believe that the supreme
 SB> court, in the early years of our nation, tended to rule in favor of
 SB> slavery, rather than against it, when issues involving slavery came
 SB> up. Therefore, I think they saw slavery as constitutional; or, at the
 SB> least, the opposition to slavery as not constitutional.
 
 I'd have to go to the Supreme Court cases to decide any time frames, or
 just what issues they were called upon to decide, but I was reading just
 the other day where William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, argued that
 slavery _wasn't_ constitutional.
 I guess my position could better be described that while the Constitution 
 doesn't ever declare slavery legal (or illegal with to the 13th Amendment)
 it _condoned_ it.
 
 SB> I didn't know any culture had come to that.  But my premise that no
 SB> such culture can long survive is still one I hold to.
 Oh, I'm not sure that particular culture is surviving to this day. I'll dig
 out the exact reference.
 
 Jim
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