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To: the OlLine Rebel
If they wanted to leave, let them leave. Why “union” at the point of a gun?

Walking out without negotiation, without paying for your share of national obligations, taking every piece of property you can get your paws on, and shooting up a fort on the way out the door are not actions that promote an amicable separation. The South wanted their war, they got it. Sorry it didn't work out the way they had planned.

38 posted on 04/02/2021 2:14:44 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Wow, sounds like the so-called RevWar.


45 posted on 04/02/2021 3:06:42 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: DoodleDawg
Walking out without negotiation,

Lincoln refused to negotiate. They tried.

without paying for your share of national obligations,

They produced the far greater majority of all payments made to the Federal treasury, and they had only 1/4th the population.

Washington DC wasn't against slavery. It was against losing the money produced by slavery which was paying 73% of it's total revenue in 1860.

taking every piece of property you can get your paws on,

It was their property in the first place, and was only given to the Federal government for the purpose of defending their states.

and shooting up a fort on the way out the door

They left in December of 1860. That was "out the door." What happened in April of 1860, many months after they had gone "out the door" was a consequence of the Washington DC government attempting to force them into submission with warships.

Wasn't you the one saying that if a man is going to shoot you dead in the street, you would attack him first?

"If someone were to pull a gun on you and you are unarmed and you're sure that they plan to kill you then do you stand there like an idiot and let them do it? Or would you be desperate enough to try and disarm the guy with the gun and fight for your life?"

102 posted on 04/02/2021 4:56:08 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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