Roger Brothers
Re: gentlemen please
Wed May 30 07:05:07 2001


Mr. Purvis,

You are right if you mean by "facts mean nothing" that absolute numbers by themselves are usually irrelevant. The thing that got this started was your statement that "At the beginning of the war, there were more free blacks in the South than Blacks in the North". Some of your other statements may be arguable. This statement is true, plain and simple (born out by the 1860 census). I always hate to see anyone "jumped" for stating the plain truth!