Chapter 5: The Yankee
"In this land of freedom, under the manifest destiny of heaven, there is still such a thing as slavery that should have been destroyed a long time ago! itself is unreasonable...... "This young sailor seems to have a strong sense of justice. Either this situation is really full of justice, or this buddy should be the first time to come to the south, no matter what the situation is, Sheffield only understands one thing, this buddy is very dangerous now, you can see it from the dangerous eyes of the people around him.
Sheffield pouted, this kind of person is also worthy of talking about the Manifest Destiny, in Sheffield's opinion, the slogan-style declaration of the Manifest Destiny is simply bullshit and useless, he prefers to add a sentence after this sentence, the combination is the Manifest Destiny, the Mandate of Heaven is in me! "Do you dare to talk about the Manifest Destiny? As far as I know, aren't your northern Whigs very much opposed to war with Mexico? Sheffield looked disgusted, and sneered with a condescending attitude, "It's ridiculous that a group of Yankees who are afraid of death in the north should talk about the destiny of heaven in front of us at this time......"
At present, the war between the United States and Mexico is underway, and the southern United States, which supports the Democratic Party, has many volunteers to join the army and enter the battlefield under the inspiration of the manifest destiny, on the contrary, the Whigs, who have great influence in the north, are very opposed to war with Mexico and hope to maintain peaceful relations with Mexico. Historically speaking, the great victory of the United States in the Mexican-American War brought the Whig Party, which had competed with the Democratic Party since the founding of the People's Republic of China, to collapse, and only then did the Republican Party rise and the United States truly entered a situation of bipartisan rivalry.
The young sailor blushed and couldn't help but retort, "I agree with the Democrats, but the merciful God will not approve of the existence of slavery......"
That's the God of the Northern Church that doesn't approve! Although Sheffield is an atheist, he doesn't dare to joke about God in this environment, so he didn't directly turn on the group ridicule mode, but said confidently, "This gentleman, why haven't I heard God's call?" Am I not God's people? Sheffield, the hypocrite, kept atheism in his heart for the time being, and he didn't really mind wasting time here at a time when the right time and place were on his side.
The church in the North became more flexible in its understanding of the Bible and constantly sought to justify the emancipation of slaves through its interpretation. Church leaders in the South, such as Robert Lewis Dabney, used Calvinist ideas to provide a plausible rationale for slavery and the South's secession from the Union. Because of the differences between the north and the south, the churches distrust and criticize each other, which led to the split of the church. The split in the Presbyterian Church had been divided a decade earlier, compounded by events other than racial issues. The Methodist Church and the Baptist Church were also deeply divided in this storm.
It can be said that at present, the South and the North of the United States are more like a society that is developing on a parallel line, and in most cases, the two sides do not even have the will to stand together, and only on the issue of newly acquired territories will they sit together and fight happily.
"This is the South, lad! If you're unhappy with the situation, you can go back to your house and vent behind closed doors, but this is not the place for you to judge right from wrong! "Derek can't stand it anymore, these northern Yankees with holes in their heads, if they don't like it, they can't see it, or do they have to come to the slave market to express their feelings? Are you here to disgust these slave owners, don't you know that this affects the business of the slave market?
If it weren't for the public, Derek would have been ready to take some drastic measures. Don't think that if you're white, you won't be beaten, in Derek's opinion, there is nothing more important in this world than money, and he will beat anyone who stands in his way.
"If you don't agree with our attitude to life, please get out of here! You're not welcome in New Orleans! Sheffield stretched and said word by word, "If you have to make trouble with us, then I'll change my sentence, Yankey, get out of ......"
As a result of the argument between the two sides, the people around them had gathered more and more, and all of them looked at the northern sailor with dangerous eyes, and Sheffield had no doubt that if in the dead of night, the young sailor was likely to receive a sincere greeting from the warm people of the South, and if a slave had been lost in his family, he might have been thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
Sheffield's words were like a fuse that ignited the discontent of the people around him, and it is no wonder that there were usually only two kinds of people who came to the slave market, one was a black slave and the other was a slave owner. Saying in front of a group of slave owners that slavery will be abolished and God will be removed is not a clear statement that I owe a beating, and now hurry up and beat me!
A Yankee get out of the way, ignited the hearts of the surrounding group of slave owners, there is the first and there is a second, the surrounding white slave owners at this time embody the unity between the southern slave owners, all kinds of curses mixed with local accents and slang, all greeted the northern sailor, and finally all converged into one sentence, "Yankey, get out of ......"
Yankeg, get out! Yankeg, get out! Sheffield, who had successfully set the fire, looked like he didn't care about himself, watching the northern sailor tossing back and forth like a lonely boat in the sea, and wondered if he would remember the days when he sailed in the sea in those years.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this Yankee obviously doesn't know what we're going on here!" Sheffield dissuaded slave owners who wanted to fight in groups, after all, it was somewhat unqualified. How can you beat people in broad daylight, the problem that can be solved on the battlefield in the future, there is no need to solve it with fists now" We should be the guy who didn't know where the poor country came from, this guy didn't know the vastness of the motherland, and he might not have much knowledge when he went out for the first time, I hope you can forgive this poor man......"
Sheffield began to speak for the poor sailor, who was also an American, to prevent some slave owners from resorting to subordinate means against him, which was very possible, just like Sheffield, he could have let the black slave Lincoln beat this guy all over the ground to find teeth, and then symbolically punish the black slave Lincoln and expose the matter. But Sheffield, who has been educated in socialism, will not do this, and he does not need to use such unattractive means to get rid of this undesirable guy!
So the sailor left the slave market in disgrace to the boos of a group of slave owners, believing that after he left, he would regret why he had so much curiosity to go around the slave market today.
Sheffield and the slave owners around him gossiped a few words together, and cursed two northern Yankees, "We keep slaves, but many slave owners work with black slaves, since black slaves yearn for freedom so much, why are eighty percent of the black people in the country in the south?" Did we buy them all? Without us, blacks simply don't have the ability to survive! A pot-bellied slave owner snorted with his head held high.
As one of the leading slave owners in all of Louisiana, Sheffield had to be worthy of his identity, at least he couldn't say that the guy on the other side was farting now, waved his hand and asked the groom to take out the soldering iron, mark the black slave, and bring it back to the Sheffield family's plantation.
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