[FLT-bird]

Team Cuda to FLT-bird: "You are right, as far as you go – about halfway through Rhett’s address. If you read the second half of Rhett’s address, you find it talks almost exclusively about slavery, and not taxes or tariffs " FLT-bird: "I agree it was an issue. I agree it was an important issue. I just do not agree that it was THE issue....at least not for most." Judging by the seven "Reasons for Secession" documents before Fort Sumter slavery was THE issue for some and an important issue for all. In every such document slavery is discussed at greater length than any other reason. And even for those who claim slavery was just "pretext", the reason given is quite telling: "Slavery is not the cause of the rebellion .... Slavery is the pretext on which the leaders of the rebellion rely, 'to fire the Southern Heart' and through which the greatest degree of unanimity can be produced.... Mr. Calhoun, after finding that the South could not be brought into sufficient unanimity by a clamor about the tariff, selected slavery as the better subject for agitation." North American Review (Boston October 1862) This (alleged) quote is often posted by Lost Causers like FLT-bird to "prove" their point that it was all about "money, money, money". But the quote actually proves something quite different -- it proves that average Southerners would not reject their own country only for "money, money, money", but rather they needed something much more important to their "way of life", namely slavery.

Nope. Completely wrong as usual. You have nothing to contribute except an endless cycle of "nuh-uh" type posts.

[BroJoeK]

FLT-bird: "Completely wrong as usual.
You have nothing to contribute except an endless cycle of "nuh-uh" type posts."

So, you have nothing to contribute except a long list of lies, some of it concocted by the original Lost Causers, much of it of more recent manufacture.

In this particular case we are discussing Rhett's December 1860 Address to Slaveholding States, which you claim is all about taxes.
True enough, Rhett did mention taxes.
But he directed even more attention to slavery, for example, these words:

"The fairest portions of the world have been turned into wildernesses, and the most civilized and prosperous communities have been impoverished and ruined by Anti-Slavery fanaticism.
The people of the North have not left us in doubt as to their designs and policy.
United as a section in the late Presidential election, they have elected as the exponent of their policy one who has openly declared that all the States of the United States must be made Free States or Slave States.
It is true that among those who aided in this election, there are various shades of Anti-Slavery hostility.
But if African Slavery in the Southern States be the evil their political combinations affirm it to be, the requisitions of an inexorable logic must lead them to emancipation.
If it is right to preclude or abolish Slavery in a territory, why should it be allowed to remain in the States?"

Clearly the issue of slavery to Rhett is vastly more existential than whether tariffs should be 15% or 20%.
But our Lost Causers adamantly refuse to see even the words of their own Confederate ancestors if such words contradict Lost Cause fantasies.