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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

“Some places announcing that they were now a different country didn’t change that.”

Yes, it did. The Union had a responsibility to remove their forts.


110 posted on 06/24/2013 8:59:03 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad
The Union had a responsibility to remove their forts.

Did the South have a responsibility to pay for them first?

113 posted on 06/24/2013 9:11:22 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: CodeToad

If a southern state wanted a fort removed, they had the obligation to pursue that peacefully, by law, with the supreme court as original jurisdiction.

They knew they would lose. They never tried it.


212 posted on 06/24/2013 3:23:59 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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