To: Partisan Gunslinger
Again, look up the history of tariffs in the US and you'll see that the south dominated the tariff issue in the Congress from the 1830s until the Civil War. They got everything they wanted in those years. John C. Calhoun begs to differ with you in a speech to Congress in 1850.
He was there, you were not.
429 posted on
01/26/2015 1:29:24 PM PST by
kiryandil
(making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
To: kiryandil
John C. Calhoun begs to differ with you in a speech to Congress in 1850. He was there, you were not. He was demigoguing to support his plantation owning constituents. Too bad he didn't support the common man of the south who had to do the fighting for the plantation owners to keep them in high cotton.
To: kiryandil
Wasn’t Calhoun the one the assaulted a fellow congressman on the floor. Typical southern behavior, resort to physical attack rather than due diligence. See Fort Sumter and all the federal depots for reference.
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