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To: ml/nj
You might note that the first part of this excerpt about the "usurpations of the national rulers" applies directly to what the Southern States did.

Care to explain what "usurpations" were committed by the 'national rulers' in 1860 that justified secession/revolution?

34 posted on 09/18/2007 12:55:04 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: Ditto
Care to explain what "usurpations" were committed by the 'national rulers' in 1860 that justified secession/revolution?

Just read some history. The South was being disproportionately taxed for the benefit of the industrial North. You don't really think the Southerners decided to leave on a whim, do you?

ML/NJ

36 posted on 09/18/2007 1:29:54 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Ditto
Care to explain what "usurpations" were committed by the 'national rulers' in 1860 that justified secession/revolution?

They held an honest election?
:O)

52 posted on 09/18/2007 4:40:07 PM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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