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To: LS; lentulusgracchus
It was clearly a relatively insignificant issue compared to slavery.

You are not answering my critique, LS. Whatever the relative status of tariffs to slavery (and why this need to view everything through the lens of slavery anyway?), it cannot be denied that the nullification crisis was a significant event in our history.

Slavery dominated every thought, every deed, every writing of the southerners, slaveholder and non alike. It underlay every law, and even the tariff was viewed in the context of slavery. Again, see Thornton.

Curious.

"Slavery Exploitation of the laborer dominated every thought, every deed, every writing of the southerners bourgeoise, slaveholder factory owner and non alike. It underlay every law, and even the tariff was viewed in the context of slavery exploitation. Again, see Thornton."

Tis interesting how these single-issue reductionist theories of history pan out, is it not?

38 posted on 03/17/2005 1:35:12 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: GOPcapitalist

Everything is viewed through the lens of slavery because that is how the SOUTH viewed everything. Have you no interest whatsoever in the MULTITUDES of studies of southern laws, local communities, etc., that overwhelmingly place slavery at the core of their being? No, of course not because that would mean Lincoln was right . . . as he was.


41 posted on 03/17/2005 1:46:45 PM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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