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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Highly Important News: The South Carolina State Convention Again in Session – 2
Our Washington Correspondence – 2
The Virginia State Convention – 2
Reports from Louisiana and Texas – 3
Latest Reports from Texas – 3
South Carolina State Convention – 3
From On Board the Brooklyn – 3
The Disunion Movement: Slavery the Basis of the New Confederacy – 3-6
A Prisoner Murdered by a Supposed Lunatic – 6
Haul of Counterfeiters – 6
Editorial: Secession and Business – 6-7
Editorial: The Southern Heptarchy – 7
“The Seward Policy” – 7
Editorial: Anything Else? – 7-8
Editorial: Fort Sumpter – 8
3 posted on 03/27/2021 7:32:10 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Written back when newspaper reporters were literate. I imagine most of the reporters were schooled before the teachers unionized, and probably before there were public (government) schools too.


4 posted on 03/27/2021 9:31:24 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Want to make sure you're aware of a weekly YouTube series on World War Two which I'm enjoying. It lacks entirely the in-depth coverage your series featured, but you might enjoy it, too.
6 posted on 03/27/2021 10:48:43 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD? Then SEEK HIM!)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; DiogenesLamp
"The Disunion Movement: Slavery the Basis of the New Confederacy – 3-6"

This is Alexander Stephens' infamous "Cornerstone Speech", a key in the truth of history's response to our Lost Causers' claims "it was not all about slavery".

Here Stephens speaks the quiet part openly, even brazenly, though nobody at the time saw his words as controversial.

7 posted on 03/28/2021 9:01:34 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...) )
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
"Editorial: Secession and Business – 6-7"

Here the Times' editors engage in flights of fantasy suggesting that, somehow through subterfuge, merchants will figure out ways to import their foreign goods into, for example, St. Louis, MO, without paying tariffs in either Confederate New Orleans or Union St. Louis.

They do cite reports that it was even then happening, but the fix seems a quite simple administrative adjustment, not even requiring Congressional action.
With the benefits of hindsight, we know that, in fact, US tariff collections during the Civil War only increased -- from ~$53 million in 1860 ~$104 million in 1864.

9 posted on 03/28/2021 9:21:54 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...) )
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