[Non-Sequitur]

Well, they had been trying to pay for it since December of 1860. Why? To prevent hostilities from breaking out, and because the government of South Carolina and later the Confederate government knew they had a responsibility to pay the other states for mutual property forfetited by secession.

If you are correct the GOP has to be wrong. Your position is that the state of South Carolina admitted that the property wasn't theirs just because the left the country and therefore the owners had to be compensated. GOP's position seems to be that secession invalidated everything, and any property belonging to the U.S. was forfit because it was built on land that now never belonged the the U.S.

[WhiskeyPapa]

If you are correct the GOP has to be wrong. Your position is that the state of South Carolina admitted that the property wasn't theirs just because the left the country and therefore the owners had to be compensated. GOP's position seems to be that secession invalidated everything, and any property belonging to the U.S. was forfit because it was built on land that now never belonged the the U.S.

ROFL

It's a tangled web alright. :)

It does seem as if the rebs offered to pay for property they didn't -really- have to, doesn't it?

Walt

[PeaRidge]

You are limiting your thinking to just two possibilities.

There is a third, and that is that upon secession, the ceed of Ft. Sumter was nullified, but South Carolina was willing to negotiate some settlement if Buchanan would remove the garrison, and stop the harrassment.

Later the Confederate Commissioners did the same thing. Peaceful negotiation offered....Lincoln turns it down.

Go figure.