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To: FLT-bird
I've studied the issue judging by the lack of original source material, far more thoroughly than you have and its quite clear to me that the only thing that drove secession and war was in fact the Tariff/government largesse issue.

You mean your posting filibusters. Rather than fill FR with endless posts, I’ll just post this link To The Declaration of Causes of the five states with the decency to explain why they were going to war.

I post this not with any hope of changing your mind (you have convinced yourself of a historical fiction) but for anyone else who might want to understand what caused that war. Those five did not include tariffs in their reasons.

99 posted on 04/17/2025 6:59:00 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
You mean your posting filibusters.

No. What I mean is I've posted direct quotes and sources from the people involved at the time. Its just very inconvenient for the political dogma you wish to cling to.

Rather than fill FR with endless posts, I’ll just post this link To The Declaration of Causes of the five states with the decency to explain why they were going to war.

And I've shown how 3 of the 4 states (there were only 4) which issued declarations of causes for secession (it was secession....Lincoln started the war) went on at length about their economic grievances even though these were not unconstitutional and refusal to enforce the fugitive slave clause of the US Constitution was unconstitutional.

I post this not with any hope of changing your mind (you have convinced yourself of a historical fiction) but for anyone else who might want to understand what caused that war. Those five did not include tariffs in their reasons.

Obviously you have swallowed the Leftist PC Revisionist dogma hook, line and sinker. As such, you are immune to actual facts, quotes and sources from the people involved at the time. I posted all the evidence I did not because it would ever be possible to persuade you, but instead so that others who care to examine the evidence for themselves rather than just gullibly swallow whatever their Leftist history profs said.

100 posted on 04/17/2025 9:48:18 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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