[wideawake]

So "Yankee Imperialism" is OK, But Confederate Imperialism is bad.

That's wasn't the point I was making.

The point I was making is that while Confederate apologists often claim that the South simply wanted to be left alone, that is not the case.

In reality, the Confederacy was not motivated by a passive desire to peacefully follow its own way of life within its borders: the Confederacy was a dynamic enterprise bent on conquest, inclusing the conquest of US federal territory.

War between the Union and the Confederacy was inevitable, since the Union owned land that the Confederacy believed that it needed to have. If the Confederacy had not started the war at Sumter, they would have started it in the territories - at the time of Sumter, John Baylor was already outfitting forces in Texas to seize the New Mexico territory.

That vote in committee by the way was 28-28.

In a committee that was something like 70-80% Republican.

A huge embarrassment for Grant.

[Michael.SF.]

What you did was try to compare two different goods, hand-ginned cotton and factory-ginned cotton, as if they were the same.

LOL. You are hopeless. You add parameters not previously mentioned. Price of cotton is the price of cotton. You made a blanket statement, which was false, and cannot admit it.

Good day.