Posted on 09/19/2014 2:52:01 PM PDT by Biggirl
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How can one state decide that the union is dissolved?
How did the company meeting go?
a good question.
I guess they were saying “as far as they were concerned”.
South Carolina’s decision to depart the Union was accepted by most northerners until South Carolina later reduced its import tariff from 48% to 10%. Northern commercial interests suddenly saw their captive southern market not only disappear but go to France and England. Lincoln was negotiating the terms of secession BEFORE that vote in the South Carolina legislature. When the tariff was reduced, everything changed and northern newspapers, once accepting secession, demanded war! The Republican Party, abolitionists aside and being the distinct minority, agreed war was necessary (to protect northern commercial interests). I don’t hate Lincoln, I just love the truth more.
Still have a job! ;)
Been thinking about you and your father, and hoping you can both be at peace. I truly understand what a rough time this is for you both—but do try to celebrate the good things. They are there, I promise!
Now back to your regular Snarking programming ;-)
I don’t know where you are from, or where you were raised,
but I trace my roots to Colonial Georgia prior to the Revolution.
“The Party of Lincoln” is why the south voted democrat for generations.
My mama is still living, born 1920.
She was orphaned at age 8, and was raised by her grandfather, born 1867,
he was the son of a Confederate veteran.
Oh, the stories that she was told...and then told to me...
It really was not all that long ago, in the great scheme of things.
And that’s a GOOD thing!
My Dad was a northerner, son of immigrants from Sicily. My Mom was a southerner from Roanoke Island, NC and a pre-revolutionary family that become very famous in the Coast Guard. I saw blacks in NC treated much better and with more respect than I ever saw when living in NJ.
I am a Virginian though I have great disgust for many citizens of that once great state. For the rest of the world, I am an American and proud of it.
Most of my ancestors came to the colony from
England, Ireland, and Scotland as indentured servants.
A few were French Huguenots, religious immigrants.
Their debt could have been incurred by various means.
The British had debtor’s prisons, where some who had no money were jailed.
They were released more or less as a way to get rid of them.
The wealthy land owners in the colonies would “buy” their debt from the authorities.
Others came by agreement to come here and work in lieu of ship fare.
The wealthy landowners had rice and indigo plantations that needed labor.
Most worked more or less as “slaves”, and after a period of time
(varied from 5-10 years), eventually worked off their debt and were free men.
The Cotton plantations came later, and the labor required for that endeavor
caused a whole different set of problems.
Big Dan Teague (O Brother Where Art Thou):
“It’s all about the MONEY, boys.
Wow! This thread is not just merely dead, it’s really most sincerly dead!
The Coroner of Munchkin Land has spoken!
I hate when Mark goes off on these tangents. An IQ test for Joe Biden? How about for the voters? But that is typical elitism. I’ll let the idiots elect a president as long as that president has very limited powers. That way the idiots (and even the brains) have very little control over my life. Isn’t that our principle?
“Follow the yellow-pricked Toad!” (Oh wait, that’s another story....nvermind :-)
Danke for the mail (and say “hi” to your stick LOL)
The stick blushed, bashful feller he
That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Full Battle Rattle” Wagons HO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (well, maybe they arent HO’s, but you get the drift ;-)
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