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The insertion of a comment on the Treaty of Ghent (End of the War of 1812) is not correct. The Treaty does not agree to end slavery.
Article 1 allows for return of all possessions taken from either party, including "slaves or other private property". The treaty does refer to the slave trade (not slavery itself). Article 10 states "Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcileable with the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both his Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavors to accomplish so desirable an object."
Italics
Use of italics on this page is really strange. Could anyone explain this?
Juan Ponderas 03:41, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Harmful effects
The manipulation of the U. S. Constitution by the production of Gag rules injured the image of the U. S. Constitution in the eyes of the citizens of the United States. Afterwards, the slave States concluded that they could ignore the
U. S. Constitution and secede from the Union.
Since the
First Constitutional Amendment had been abridged by the Congressmen, the supreme law of the land lost some of its inviolability. However, the single greatest cause of the
War Between the States was the enormous gulf in wealth which had developed. Northerners were building
savings banks at the rate of approximately ten per year. Southerners were "the working poor" in the 1850s.
Superslum00:19, 19 May 2006 (UTC)reply
MULTIPLICITY
Contributors to this article should keep it in mind that there were various gag rules. THE should be "THOSE" gag rules.
Gag Rule is an article which has been changed so many times that it is now only a grotesque shell of what it had been a year ago. It has been given a new slant. It pretends that southerners forced slavery on northerners. It bypasses the real facts, which are that pro-slavery Democrats held top governmental offices in northern States such as New York, New Hampshire, and Maine. President
Martin van Buren was a pro-slavery Democrat from New York.
Pro-slavery Democrats were created about seven years after the
Treaty of Ghent was ratified by Congress in
1815. The
Treaty of Ghent included an agreement that both nations would take steps to end slavery. England gradually ended slavery throughout the British Empire by the end of
1835. The United States enacted a series of Acts of Congress (known as "gag rules") which ignored the provision in the
Treaty of Ghent that required a cessation of slavery. In effect, the Americans employed their "gag rules" to revise the
Treaty of Ghent and thereby to keep slavery in their nation.
Revisionists are busily changing many of the articles in Wikipedia. Basically, revisionists are removing important materials and inserting vacuous materials into articles. Important materials removed from the
Gag Rule article were these:
One of the "gag rules" was named the Atherton gag, probably because it was originated by (Congressman or Senator) Charles Gordon Atherton of New Hampshire (which is a northern State)
It is possible that the title of the page was changed from
Gag rule to
Gag Rule in order to obliterate the original page. Over the span of a year, revisionists have removed the important information from the page, thereby creating a worthless page.
71.240.42.7211:33, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Between 1815 and 1865, more than 200 Democrats served as State Governors in the United States. The State Governors who were Democrats are placed closest to the left edge of the page. A # sign indicates each Democrat. The political party of each Governor who was not a Democrat follows his name.
This list of State Governors provides information that conveys the general attitude that voters in the United States held towards slavery. Democrats promoted slavery. Men in the Whig Party were the primary group that opposed Democrats.
Gag Rule is an article which has been shredded into nothingness. Now, it has no value. Reading it is a waste of time. Wikipedia takes the approach that each apple on a tree is more important than the tree itself. Wikipedia ought to recognize that some of the apples on a tree may contain worms.
Superslum00:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)reply
The Gag Rule debates were a significant part of the events leading up to the American Civi War. It deserves its own article, especially since the material in this article unrelated to it (which makes up the entire article lead) contains little of interest or significance in its current form and there appears to be no interest in expanding it. Absent some objections, I intend in the near future to create a new article titled something like "Gag Rule Debates in the United States Congress."
Tom (North Shoreman) (
talk)
21:28, 19 December 2009 (UTC)reply
@
Deisenbe: The current article name isn't precise since there are other gag rules in the United States, such as the
Mexico City policy. This article is now specifically about the gag rule on slavery, and the article name should reflect that. Do you have a better suggestion?
Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs)
06:49, 18 November 2021 (UTC)reply