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Hardest beating I ever took was at the hands of my own brother. You see I tend to keep talk'n and use'n words long after I've crossed a line. Some people, when you've insult their family and ridiculed them as a debate tactic tend to take it personally. My brother is one such person. The fight consisted of but one extremely well timed fist throw to the nose. suffice it to say, when I woke up I was in a pool of blood, and my nose has never been the same since. But, one thing I take away from that altercation, besides a messed up nose, was the keen awareness that I had it come'n. Some people just don't like it when you ridicule them, and when you deliberately intend to provoke a response from a man liable to throw a fist, you have only yourself to blame when you return to consciousness one the floor sans a good cup of blood and a broken nose.

It is, as I said previously in this thread, particularly irksome to hear, not just any Yankee, but a Massachusetts man, call a Southerner hypocrite. As if the Yankees of Massachusetts even cared about the Negro Slaves. Perhaps they should have closed down the clandestine and illegal slave trade they where STILL engaged at the time of this confrontation.

Since you seem predisposed to bring up old incidents of perceived past slight against Yankees from Southern quarters to me, as if I have tried to be anything but a voice of reason on this thread, I will thank you for make'n my point FOR me. As I said earlier in this thread, many in this county simply didn't like Southerners. Since they usually didn't like blacks either I can only assume it was a cultural thing. If one is will'n to go through the trouble of find'n an old political cartoon to attack notions of Southern Chivalry and lump em all together with one ornery South Carolinian in a day and age where “supposedly” old grudges have ceased, imagine what it must have been like over a hundred and fifty years ago; and then you'll know at least one reason why the war was fought.