My point in posting the article was to spur some thought over culpability for the violence and economic drag that 13% of our population imposes on the rest of us. People who celebrate Confederate heritage don't seem to take that into account.
As a strategy to get you out of the Union, you wouldn't want to say things that would undermine it.
As Roberts points out, Congress had every authority to raise taxes on them, and there was nothing they could do about it, so their only legal argument was to claim breach of contract on the issue of slavery, even though their real gripe was the money. (60% of the total value of their production went to the North.)
But to see an example of someone of that time period talking about the economic unfairness they were dealing with, here is a speech by Robert Rhett.
http://www.civilwarcauses.org/rhett.htm
My point in posting the article was to spur some thought over culpability for the violence and economic drag that 13% of our population imposes on the rest of us.
That 13% is the tool Liberals use to keep their grip on power. With that power comes their wealth. They suck most of their money out of government either by administering government policies or selling access to government through bribes.
They are not going to do anything about that 13% because that would threaten their power, and *THEY* control the media, publishing, the Universities, and government.
People who celebrate Confederate heritage don't seem to take that into account.
I don't have any Confederate heritage. My family didn't arrive here until after 1900, and none of them have ever lived in a Confederate state.
I just realized some years ago the narrative we have been sold regarding the civil war is intentionally misleading.