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To: lentulusgracchus
You're like a kid who keeps calling over and over, "look at my new bicycle. You don't have a new bicycle, do you?" The fact is overshadowed by its general irrelevance and the annoying maladjustment of its proponent.

Complain, complain, complain.

The fact that the Confederate government spent practically every month of its existence in extremis, and that the liberty and property of the people it attempted to protect suffered while the country was being invaded and dismembered by a hostile army numbering in the millions is a fact that you repeatedly overlook in order to taunt Southerners for having lost the war.

Yet had the confederate government had any interest in all in protecting individual rights then they would have had plenty of time to do so. After all, they had time to start a war, establish an army, institute a tariff, create a cabinet, all in the first three months. But not establish a judiciary. During the course of the war they had time to suspend habeas corpus, declare martial law, staff thousands of habeas corpus commissioners. But not establish a judiciary to oversee them. Well, it's all a matter of priorities, I guess.

234 posted on 09/11/2003 6:11:14 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
After all, they had time to start a war, .....

Nice try. Point denied. Lincoln started the war, the evidence is becoming overwhelming.

See above. To which you haven't replied. Need help? Ping rustbucket and nolu chan. They'll be happy to guide you around what they've found.

237 posted on 09/11/2003 6:26:40 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Non-Sequitur; thatdewd
Yet had the confederate government had any interest in all in protecting individual rights then they would have had plenty of time to do so. After all, they had time to start a war, establish an army, institute a tariff, create a cabinet, all in the first three months. But not establish a judiciary.

We refuted you on the 'no judiciary' charge not long ago.

CSA judiciary appointments
CSA District Court ruling upholding civilian rights
thatdewd's list of CSA District Court records
Non-Sequitur's concession to thatdewd
Non-Sequitur's concession to rustbucket

254 posted on 09/11/2003 8:06:33 AM PDT by rustbucket
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To: Non-Sequitur
are we back to that particuliar piece of NON-sense again?

do you really want to fight that fight again?

had we WON, there would have been a CSSC;even the revisionists admit that.

free dixie,sw

473 posted on 09/13/2003 11:52:36 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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