The Arrogance of the Southern States Pre-Independence from Britain.

Arrogance, I could also use other, more profane, words to describe how I loathe the character of the whites in the mid to late 18th century in South Carolina. Note, this doesn't not directly correlate with the lecture from this week, but I felt the need to post this in my blog on the Formative Period of America, as it certainly pertains. The (rather God-awful) book I'm reading currently, The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah, is in reality an essay on the abuses of slaves by white slave-holders and the Patriots of the South nearing the Revolution. But I shall go on into more detail of the book in my analysis.

I must point out though, that it absolutely frosts my cookies that these people are so indignant that they feel they can rule over everything. It seems like they have some law set up, but most of the time, they just do whatever they feel like. Certain members of their government and active political parties such as the Patriots brainwash even their own citizens of South Carolina to make them believe whatever they see fit. They will punish innocent men just to show other slaves that rebelling would not be a good idea. Did they really think that if the slaves were going to rebel that they'd shake in their boots because the radical parts of government decided to hang a few slaves? Hello! They'd been doing that for ages, and that wasn't going to stop the slaves.

And this whole idea of Protestant Christians against the Catholics, or the Christians who thought it was okay to have slaves because the Bible said so was ridiculous. Did they not realize that was more than a century ago when they had them? And they didn't all treat them like the scum of the earth either. Many people in the Bible respected their slaves, and there is no mention of any such treatment as the atrocities that the Southerners showed to their own slaves.

How is it that you can consider a slave a piece of commerce and merchandise but you can put them to jury as a human? If an apple tree did not grow as much fruit as the others around it would you hack it to the ground, would you burn it? This simply does not make sense. You cannot attempt to consider them both. It causes many problems and mix-ups, where its up to a few individuals to choose the fate of these people.

South Carolina seemed to be the heart of the radical patriot acts in the South, and it also seemed to show the most instability in governmental actions and ethics. There was quite a mix of people towards the turn of the century, but this only made South Carolina delegates even more crazed. Things were falling apart, and they were panicking. Radical groups panicking is never a good thing. They choose to act upon their emotions, and cause serious damage. I'm not at all surprised the Civil War occurred. It was a surefire way to attempt to put these crazed official back into reality, and make them pay for their 'hellish deeds' they so accused others of doing.