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The South didn't assert it owned part of federal properties in the North.

Then why did the Confederates invade Kentucky which had rejected secession?

What share of responsibility did the South walk away from - they were paying a good part (some would argue more than their share) of the taxes.

Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that is a bunch of bunk. The South was not even close to paying their 'fair share' of Federal expenses.

Again, look at another item, and one, be assured, in which we have a great and vital interest; it is that of revenue, or means of supporting Government. From official documents, we learn that a fraction over threefourths of the revenue collected for the support of Government has uniformly been raised from the North.

Pause now while you can, gentlemen, and contemplate carefully and candidly these importaut items. Look at another branch of Government, and learn from stern statistical facts how matters stand in that department. I mean the mail and Post-Office privileges that we now enjoy under the General Government as it has been for years past. The expense for the traasportation of the mail in the Free States was, by the report of the Postmaster-General for the year 1880, a little over $13,000,000, while the income was $19,000,000. But In the Slave States the transportation of the mail was $14,716,000, while the revenue from the same was $6,001,0-26, leaving a deficit of $6,704,974, to be supplied bv the North for our accommodation, and without it we must have been entirely cutoff from this most essential branch of Government.

Alexander H. Stephens at the Georgia secession convention, Jan, 1861

[paladin1_dcs]

Why did the CSA invade KY?

It was a war you dummie, Col. Morgan and his 2nd Kentucky Cavalry were sent to disrupt supply lines for the Army of Ohio, which was amassing for a drive into Tennessee. It was only after this success that the CSA’s Heartland Offensive was launched. Col. Morgan did think that Kentucky would secede if a CSA army were to take up position in Loiusville, but this was not the primary motivation of the CSA’s invasion of Kentucky. The primary reason was military, not political, in nature.

[BroJoeK]

Ditto: "Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that is a bunch of bunk. The South was not even close to paying their 'fair share' of Federal expenses."

Thanks for a great quote.
It bears repeating to people who've lost their sense of perspective.