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To: rockrr
Sumter was a defensive fortification, not a tariff collection point.

It was both. Check you facts.

252 posted on 08/05/2010 4:03:01 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
"Check you (sic) facts."

OK. Nope, Fort Sumter was never used as a tariff collection point (although curiously the Mises and Marxist websites claim otherwise).

256 posted on 08/05/2010 4:26:03 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
It was both. Check you facts.

Tariffs at Charleston were collected at the the Exchange and Customs House, located at 122 E. Bay Street in Charleston. Amazingly, it's usually considered a better idea to collect tariffs at a location near the docks where ships are actually unloading, rather than at a remote island with only a small dock in the middle of the bay.

259 posted on 08/05/2010 4:37:11 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

The Grady McWhiney collection at McMurry University could
settle the question. Here is a link to their site. It is one of the largest collections of period documents in existence.

http://www.mcwhiney.org/collect/collection.html


300 posted on 08/06/2010 8:11:43 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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