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To: Gunslingr3
That is one insult too many. This country has dealt with the horrendous issue of slavery since its founding and it has been noted that freedom while still allowing slavery is hypocritical in the worst form. Yet you proclaim rebellion in the name of freedom for slavery.

Now go starch your sheets.

57 posted on 12/28/2003 6:33:34 PM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space for rent)
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To: KC_Conspirator
That is one insult too many.

I doubt it is enough to provoke you out of your comfortable delusions and inspire you to examine the facts.

This country has dealt with the horrendous issue of slavery since its founding and it has been noted that freedom while still allowing slavery is hypocritical in the worst form.

Lincoln did not go to war to end slavery. He said so, before and during the fact. Again, familiarity with the facts would greatly aid your understanding. The hypocrit is your hero.

Yet you proclaim rebellion in the name of freedom for slavery.

No, I proclaim secession is a right of any people. It is the very heart of the Declaration of Independence which you seem intent on forgetting.

As in previous secession conferences of American history, the issue was trade and tariffs (whether examing the Hartford Convention - when northern states examined the question of secession, or the Abominable tariffs - when South Carolina and others examined it again). The people of the South were sick of seeing 80% of federal revenue being generated by tariffs on the South's trade whilst the money was expended on the Whig/Republican program of 'internal improvements' (which, if you bother to educate yourself you'd learn States across the Union had been outlawing in their own constitutions because of disasterous plundering by politicians) in the North. The passage of the Morrill Tarriff, combined with the election of the Republican Lincoln, convinced the South no relief from the federal plunder was in sight. So they decided to leave the Union. Lincoln decided they would be conquered, burned and plundered instead. The Federal Republic was dead, replaced with a national, consolidated democracy which recognizes almost no limit to its powers.

58 posted on 12/28/2003 7:08:21 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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