[stainlessbanner]

swing and a bump!

[billbears]

I have to say I'm ashamed of myself. I read this earlier today and wanted to post it but got caught up at work and forgot about it. Bump for a great article and the truth

[Colt .45]

BUMP on a good article of truth! Can't you just hear the patter of the damnYankee feet running to defend their sainted tyrant?!

[TomServo]

Dixie Mornin' Bump!

[STONEWALLS]

"The party "used the power gained from this to plunder the taxpayers of the South for more than a decade after the war ended" (p. 202)." ......IMHO the South could have gotten on it's feet a lot quicker if it hadn't been for this.....there was an enormous amount of cotton in the ware houses of blockaded port cities....that cotton all got seized by the North and sold for "reparations".....the South could have used that money to repair hiways, bridges, railroads ect.....it's hard to make your way back when your infrastructure is torn up...

Good luck to everybody!

Stonewalls

[WhiskeyPapa]

Quite to the contrary, DiLorenzo shows that dominant legal opinion granted states the right to depart.

This is just not true.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1862 that the acts and ordinances of secession of the so-called seceded states had no basis in U.S. law.

There were many other cases well prior to the war which cannot be squared with a legal right to secession, including Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816), McCullough v. Maryland (1819) and Cohens v. Virginia (1821). Any ONE of these cases is a bar to legal unilateral state secession, and the slave power well knew it. That is why they made no appeal to the court, but tried to extort their demands at the point of a gun.

Walt

[WhiskeyPapa]

Guess you're letting this thread slide because it got moved to chat.

All these neo-reb rants need to be deleted.

Walt