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To: rmvh
The second Bank of the United States had had it's charter run out 25 years before the beginning of the Civil War. How could that have been a factor in the southern decision? And as for slavery, I maintain only that it was by far the single, most important factor in the southern decision. I'm sure that there was a small minority who had other reasons for rebellion.
314 posted on 11/13/2002 12:39:55 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Re your # 314...The second Bank of the United States had had it's charter run out 25 years before the beginning of the Civil War. How could that have been a factor in the southern decision?

I took my statement directly out of the "encyclopedia Americana"..Volume 6..page 791...my set published in 1971.

My guess is that the history they printed was before political correctness and the historical revisionism common since the end of WWII..largely done, of course, to satisfy the likes of the NAACP and such.

But I am only quoting what is printed in the encyclopedia and incorporated it into the tarrif problem that it and the north presented for the south.

Have a very nice evening.

316 posted on 11/13/2002 2:11:28 PM PST by rmvh
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