What a tragic end it would be to a great union, just like ours, that had contributed so much to the world. Instead of advocating secession everywhere, perhaps you should work with other like-minded people from across the US to make the whole country a better place.
Besides, didn’t Texas try this once already before it got whipped back into line by Abraham Lincoln and the Feds?
“Besides, didn’t Texas try this once already before it got whipped back into line by Abraham Lincoln and the Feds?”
Back then Yankees were made of sterner stuff.
“Besides, didn’t Texas try this once already before it got whipped back into line by Abraham Lincoln and the Feds?”
Back then Yankees were made of sterner stuff.
“Besides, didn’t Texas try this once already before it got whipped back into line by Abraham Lincoln and the Feds?”
Texas was an independent republic from 1836-1846.
They applied for admission to the United States but it took some years because of opposition within Congress.
One of the opponents to admitting Texas was Illinois Congressman Abe Lincoln.
Besides, didn’t Texas try this once already before it got whipped back into line by Abraham Lincoln and the Feds?
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Not Exactly:
Texas is the only state that has been its own country. After Texas won its independnce from mexico in the battle of San Jacinto it became the Republic of Texas.
Mexico didnt want to give up so easy and that spawned the Mexican war which the US intervened in and won and annexed Texas from Mexico.
“Besides, didn’t Texas try this once already before it got whipped back into line by Abraham Lincoln and the Feds?”
Yes,but that was before Spindle Top (circa 1901). Oil, black gold, Texas tea changed the economic future of Texas and is still changing it.
Even with oil and revenues, the Texas economy is much more diversified now. Only Californica and New Yawk state may be larger and they are in decline. The Texas economy is growing.
Texas, this time, will not secede from the Union. At some point, the other red states may join with Texas in booting the blue states out of the Union. Texans believe in the Constitution and Union our founding fathers gave us and want to keep it. Remember, the Union started with 13 colonies and grew into a nation.
Abraham Lincoln did not whip Texas or any confederate states back into line. He simply let Sherman loose to needlessly destroy all life and property in his march through Georgia. Sherman intentionally burned or destroyed every building (especially the courthouses where deeds and records were kept), railroads and rolling stock, homesteads and farm fields, and killed all the horses and livestock in his march to the sea. He did not distinguish between military or civilian targets. Southerners bitterly remember the events down to this very day.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox to end the war and the killing (630,000 dead after 4 years). Lincoln as far as I know did not even attend the surrender. Robert E. Lee did the honourable thing and was a greater man than Lincoln in my opinion. Lincoln only freed the slaves after the conflict started and the Union was beginning to fail. The conflict was not over the issue of slavery, but economics. Texas understands economics much better this time around and will not make the same mistakes.