[Held_to_Ransom]

I am still laugbing my butt off that you think the Morrill Tariff was something Congress did for fun instead of out of the necessity of waging war against the traitors. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GOPcapitalist]

I am still laugbing my butt off that you think the Morrill Tariff was something Congress did for fun instead of out of the necessity of waging war against the traitors. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only joke here is that you think a tariff that was written around January of 1860, passed in the House in March of 1860, passed in the Senate in February of 1861 and signed into law a few days later was somehow designed as a response measure to a war that began in April 1861. Not only does your interpretation of the Morrill act defy history as it happened. It also defies the timeline itself!

But please do proceed - I find it highly amusing to observe the degree to which you are willing to embarass yourself rather than admitting your ignorance and error on the tariff issue.

[GOPcapitalist]

While we're on the topic of timelines why don't you check out the congressional record itself to see when Mr. Morrill brought up his infamous tariff bill?

March 12, 1860 - Rep. Justin Morrill of Vermont speaks on the House floor to report his tariff bill's approval out of the the Committee on Ways and Means

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Do you not find it the least bit strange that a bill that you claim was to finance the war was taken up by congress well over a year before that war ever started and long before they even knew there was going to be a war? If the things that you claim about the bill's purposes were true (and they are not) Rep. Morrill must have been consulting with his psychics!