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To: PeaRidge

Please do. I have asked that question for years and no one ever provides a list.


773 posted on 06/25/2009 2:12:10 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
Contrary to your answer, I have watched people provide that information to you a number of times.

Your answer is to always argue the validity of the assertions based on your own concepts of Constitutionality and/or morality.

Secession was peaceful. Commerce continued after January 1861. Banks lent. Shipping and railroads moved passengers and freight. Newspapers published, and manufacturing moved forward.

What stopped all of that was Lincoln's orders for armed ships to invade Charleston and Pensacola harbors.

So, the real question is what were Lincoln's reasons for beginning a war.

828 posted on 06/26/2009 8:28:53 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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