[Non-Sequitur]

What were they supposed to do when the Union was asked to leave the fort that was no longer theirs to hold?

And why was it no longer the Union's to hold? Because South Carolina said so? Fort Sumter was located on property deeded to the U.S. by the legislature of South Carolina. It was constructed on a man-made island. Made, by the way, from granite shipped down from New England. It was the property of the U.S. government.

When are you people who ignore truth going to stop parroting the politically correct line that the North was good and the South was evil when the truth was that THE NORTH ALSO HAD SLAVES DURING THE WAR OF NORTHERN AGRESSION.

But the south was the one who was willing to start a war to protect their slaves.

[Arkinsaw]

And why was it no longer the Union's to hold? Because South Carolina said so? Fort Sumter was located on property deeded to the U.S. by the legislature of South Carolina. It was constructed on a man-made island. Made, by the way, from granite shipped down from New England. It was the property of the U.S. government.

Now here you have a point. Ownership does not make for sovereignty however.

I've always wondered how it would have gone over if South Carolina had demanded the property taxes for the Fort. Would the US have paid? It would have been interesting to see how the county sheriff coming out to evict Major Anderson would have been handled rather than a military attack. Would the US have fired on local civil officials? And if they did, would it have been received as badly in the north as the cannonade was received? In any event, a slightly humorous mental picture.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You mean the U.S. government that no longer was in control of the South and the South no longer recognized it's authority in the sovreign Confederate States? Please! Don't try to tell me that once a government does something that is impossible to undo it! Next thing you'll tell me is that the U.S. never borle the treaties it made with the Indians.

And the North was equally willing to allow slavery in four Northern states while pretending that the war was about the abolition of slavery!

Give me a break!

[stand watie]

our southland was willing FINALLY to go to war to protect our NATURAL rights.

slavery had little or nothing to do with the war, period. end of story.

free dixie,sw