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To: DoodleDawg

The Confederate constitution allowed states to join that did not allow slavery. Your claim is false. The Corwin Amendment would have barred laws that prevented slave ownership in states where it was allowed. The Confederate Constitution did not differ from the US constitution wrt the slave trade. It was barred from everywhere on earth except the US states that allowed it - ie exactly the same as before. Like I said, the Corwin Amendment offered pretty much the same protections of slavery that the Confederate constitution did.

Its not that I keep saying Southerners objected to the North’s economic plundering of the South acting through the federal government. They said it. Repeatedly. I posted numerous quotes. Southerners were of course paying 75% of the tariff. Where the goods land is irrelevant. He who owns the goods pays the tariff - not the port.


183 posted on 03/03/2020 11:21:29 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
The Confederate constitution allowed states to join that did not allow slavery.

How? If the constitution mandated that all territory the confederacy might acquire must be open to slaves then how could any state from it be slave free? Especially if laws impairing the owning of slaves was also prohibited. The fact is the Confederate constitution made non-slave states impossible.

The Corwin Amendment would have barred laws that prevented slave ownership in states where it was allowed.

Where it currently existed. It did not prevent slavery from being banned from territories or prevent new slave states from being admitted. The Confederate constitution banned both.

Repeatedly. I posted numerous quotes. Southerners were of course paying 75% of the tariff.

But no source for the claims. On the other hand I've quoted figures from congressional reports from just before the start of the rebellion showing upwards of 95% of all tariffs were collected in Northern ports. If 75% of imports were destined for Southern consumers then wouldn't they go to Southern ports?

185 posted on 03/03/2020 11:59:01 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: FLT-bird
He who owns the goods pays the tariff - not the port.

So 5 million southerners owned 75% of the goods imported into the US and 22 million northerners therefore owned 25%. What did this southerners do with it all then?

186 posted on 03/03/2020 12:04:03 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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