Yep, for sure! Maryland State Senator Brian Frosh (D-Montgomery) has introduced a bill to officially rescind the so-called Corwin amendment to the U.S. Constitution — proposed back in 1861 as a way for Southern and border states to keep slavery without having to leave the Union.
Ultimately, the amendment didn't go anywhere, and we all know what happened next: Fort Sumter, 600,000 Americans killed, Reconstruction, Scarlett O'Hara. But four states ratified it: Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and (drum roll) Maryland. We cats commend Senator Frosh for his commitment to bringing the Old Line State into line.
On this hopeful note — and having just opined on the silly faux outrage in the GOP over an MSNBC-Cheerios tweet — we cats just had to beam over to our favorite corner of right-wing cyberspace, Free Republic. We wanted to see if they were up to speed on the Corwin amendment — and how they feel in general about the whole Late Unpleasantness.
Our report: While they haven't quite caught up with Corwin, the Freepers are weighing in big-time on the Civil War, slavery, black people and what-not:
"What a better world this would be if the South succession [sic] had been a [sic] achieved permanently."
That pretty much sums up the right wing — morally, politically and grammatically. We cats HISS.
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