Posted on 11/18/2008 7:46:57 PM PST by DBCJR
It is now about one year since the first Tariff Act of 1861 was passed; it is almost one year since the Rebellion became a settled fact, and war was rendered inevitable by the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The time is a fitting one for a review of the effects of the passage of the former and the influence of the latter on the commerce and foreign trade of our country.
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You are truly sad
There was great trouble in the Eastern states when slaves were to be returned South as well. I had not known about those in Wisconsin.
Riiight, you have been caught in a BALD FACED LIE but I am the one who is “sad”. Pathetic.
You are way out of your league if you think you can get away with misrepresenting the articles you post around here.
Please calm down. You are making yourself look ridiculous.
What are you talking about? I am calm as can be. Calmly pointing out your lying about the articles you posted which in no way support your theory that the US taxed exports.
Why would I get excited about something so patently false and so easily shown to be?
These efforts to revise the history of the Great Slaver Rebellion of 1861 are always great for a laugh or two.
Lew Rockwell? LOL
I tried to help this guy but he thinks I have a “problem” after catching him claiming the feds taxed exports, a clear violation of the Constitution. and uttely untrue not even alledged by his NY Times article.
The cause of the Civil War between Republicans and Democrats does not get any clearer than this.
First paragraph:
“I have been appointed by the Convention of the State of Georgia, to present to this Convention (Virginia), the ordinance of secession of Georgia,
and further, to invite Virginia, thorough this Convention, to join Georgie and the other seceded States in the formation of a Southern Confederacy.
This, sir, is the whole extent of my mission….”
Second paragraph:
”What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession?
This reason may be summed up in one single proposition.
It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia,
that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery.
This conviction, sir, was the main cause.
It is true, sir, that the effect of this conviction was strengthened by a further conviction that such a separation would be the best remedy for the fugitive slave evil,
.... {Note: This ‘fugitive slave evil’
.... being the the refusal of some Republicans
.... in Northern States
.... to refuse to return escaped slaves}
and also the best, if not the only remedy, for the territorial evil.
.... {Note: This ‘territorial evil’
.... would be the Missouri compromise
.... from thirty or forty years prior
.... where the territories were declared free
.... and slaves were not allowed.
.... The democrats wished to take their slaves
.... with them.}
But, doubtless, if it had not been for the first conviction this step would never have been taken.
It therefore becomes important to inquire whether this conviction was well founded.”
………..Honorable Henry L. Benning, of Georgia
……………addressing the Virginia State Convention
……………on Monday, February 18, 1861
……………the Fifth day of the Convention
....
.... The second speaker from the other States after Mississippi.
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