Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: DiogenesLamp
Well firstly, Sumter was *THEIRS* and they paid for it.

Not hardly.

You know they paid 73% of the taxes, and therefore most military bases were paid for by them...

I don't know that at all. I know you've made that stupid claim time after time but nothing but your own opinion backs that up.

Secondly, you just gloss right over that many billions of dollars of property destroyed.

Having started the war the South alone was responsible for keeping the war from coming home to haunt them. If they were incapable of doing that then they have nobody to blame but themselves.

Thirdly, you analogy would only make sense if Pearl Harbor was outside of Tokyo or something.

Why?

Worthless speck of nothing that had no real value other than to intimidate the people of South Carolina.

And Davis used it to start his war. Pretty dumb, huh?

255 posted on 07/29/2021 4:15:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 224 | View Replies ]


To: DoodleDawg
I don't know that at all. I know you've made that stupid claim time after time but nothing but your own opinion backs that up.

All the economic data for that time period backs it up. You just don't want it to be true, because it puts a different light on the relationship between the North and the South.

270 posted on 07/29/2021 4:10:42 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 255 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson