He was the 4th or 5th choice of the secession convention, and later ran unopposed. Castro couldn't have done better.
There it is. He threatened invasion if the tax/tribute wasn't paid. Like I said.
Nah, he threatened invasion to deliver the mail. </sarcasm>
It doesn't matter what order things happenen in. Lincoln had no right to collect taxes from South Carolina after South Carolina became an independent Nation.
I'm not aware of any tariff revenue that was collected after Lincoln was inagurated. The confederacy started a war anyway.
Don't you ever get tired of defending ancient war propaganda? Davis was faced with invasion by a foreign power. And unlike Lincoln, enjoyed the support of most of his population for most of his actions.
Don't you ever get tired of the nonsense you post? Davis started a war, so that was a reason not to establish the third branch of government his constitution required, ignore the restrictions against a protective tariff, and offer to end slavery in spite of the fact that the constitution did not give him that power? Well, Lincoln was faced with war, too. Why couldn't he have bent the constitution a bit?
And you can hardly compare Lincoln's jailing of 30,000 people whose only crime was to speak or write against the war with anything Jefferson Davis did.
Mark Neely wrote two books on the subject: "The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties" and "Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism". After extensive research Neely's not only came to a figure considerably smaller than the 30,000 you claim but he also found out that on a per capita basis one was more likely to be locked up without trial in a Jeff Davis confederacy than in Abe Lincoln's Union. But of course you'll say that the war made that all OK.
Thanks for mentioning the Neely works. I didn't know about them. It confirms a big picture of abusive Confederate government the is in accord with all the local histories I've read of my area.
And it's refreshing to see a reference to a real scholar's work on these threads as opposed to DiLorenzo's glorified toilet paper.
And as usual, no reb seems very interested in discussing the reign of Tyrant Jeff. I guess it's hard enough defending the Confederacy without acknowledging they teated southern white people badly as well.