[BroJoeK]

Pea Ridge post #294: "Those visionary few have mistakenly become known as "fire eaters".
They correctly foresaw that political leaders could and would push aside the Constitution that had been explicitly designed to guarantee the rights of the people as a whole, not of a section."

Here is more on Southern "Fire Eaters".

"By radically urging secessionism in the South, the Fire-Eaters demonstrated the high level of sectionalism existing in the U.S. during the 1850s, and they materially contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War...

"Led by such men as Edmund Ruffin, Robert Rhett, Louis T. Wigfall, and William Lowndes Yancey, this group was dubbed "Fire-Eaters" by northerners...

"...They used several recent events for propaganda, among them "Bleeding Kansas" and the Sumner-Brooks Affair to accuse the North of trying to immediately abolish slavery.
Using effective propaganda against 1860 presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, the Fire-Eaters were able to convince many southerners of this false accusation.
They first targeted South Carolina, which passed an article of secession in December 1860.

"Wigfall, for one, actively encouraged an attack on Fort Sumter to prompt Virginia and other upper Southern States to secede as well.

"Thus, the Fire-Eaters helped to unleash a chain reaction that eventually led to the formation of the Confederate States of America and to the American Civil War.

Their influence waned quickly after the start of major fighting."

[PeaRidge]

You have attempted to engage me in the past with posts ranging from simply the opinionated, like this one, to outright lies.

You never exchange information in a rational or reasonable way. I think you are just a tired old person, amusing himself with bombastic secretions that do not move the conversation. Please do not bother me with your selected canards.