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To: RowdyFFC
I think your timeline doesn’t quite represent what really happened...it needs to go back to the recession of 1837 when the union labor decimated the northern manufacturers and priced them out of business (just like they’ve done today)...and the south started importing cheaper goods than buying from the north. Therefore the federal government established high tariffs on imported goods from the southern ports trying to FORCE the south to buy the north’s high priced goods...the south put up with that KRAP for OVER 20 YEARS before they got a gutful of the north’s and the federal government’s manipulation of the free market system. Not to mention that Texas was already pissed off because they’d been paying taxes to Washington DC for 20 years and not gotten one whit of help protecting the southern borders (JUST LIKE TODAY).

Did you get all those myths from some Cracker Jack box, or did you just make them up off the top of your head? Overpriced union labor in 1837? High tariffs on goods "from" southern ports? Just --- WOW?

Do you know that the tariff rate in 1860 was the lowest in our history at that point in time? Did you know that both Massachusetts and South Carolina representatives in congress voted for those rates? Do you even understand what a tariff is?

The tariff excuse of secession is a myth my friend. Read some history. Read what they said at the time, not what some Libertarian nutbag at Lou Rockwell.com says.

50 posted on 12/16/2010 12:03:48 PM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Ditto

I don’t have to read what someone else did...I went out and got the facts myself and have written extensively on what I’ve found.

And if you too can’t or won’t do that, then there’s no sense in having a discussion with you since you want to stay deluded and mired into false flags.

Yes, UNIONS, there were UNIONS in the north as far back as 1826. And YES, I know they had lowered the tariffs in an attempt to win back the south, but by that time they were just a little TOO LATE! Nobody was buying their BS! And NO, it’s not a myth, much to your chagrin, of course. I’d be willing to bet you never read a blasted thing about what lead up to the civil war and barely know what you’re talking about.


54 posted on 12/16/2010 1:07:32 PM PST by RowdyFFC (.)
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To: Ditto; RowdyFFC
Read what they said at the time, not what some Libertarian nutbag at Lou Rockwell.com says.

Hell, not even the Lew Rockwell people blame organized labor for the Panic of 1837.

57 posted on 12/16/2010 3:50:07 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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