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To: PeaRidge
Lincoln was collecting taxes by force of arms.

Oh bullsh*t. Tariffs are applied and revenue collected where the goods are landed, which is why the Charleston Customs House was located at the docks on East Bay Street. Sumter was an army post in the middle of the harbor, miles away from the docks and the businesses. Only a complete idiot would ever mistake it for a customs house or tariff collections point.

And besides, Lincoln continued on to say, "The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union." Next you'll be claiming that Sumter was really a post office.

883 posted on 06/27/2009 10:26:15 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
"Oh bullsh*t" back at you.

"Tariffs are applied and revenue collected where the goods are landed.

Here you go off again on another red herring. Lincoln said: “The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and impost...

He said he was and he meant it.

908 posted on 06/28/2009 8:35:50 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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