[Held_to_Ransom]

we southrons could also argue that the properties reclaimed by southerners were OURS as much as the damnyankees, inasmuchas ALL of the taxpayers paid for the properties.

Yes, but it is a fallacious argument as 2/3rds of the people who paid for the properties were from the North, and they paid 86% of the tab on them. You can't sell your property and then reclaim it keeping while keeping the money without becoming a common thief.

[WhiskeyPapa]

You can't sell your property and then reclaim it keeping while keeping the money without becoming a common thief.

A little reflection will tell any honest person that the secessionists were no better than common thieves. That they are put forward as honorable is the big lie of ACW history.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

Yes, but it is a fallacious argument as 2/3rds of the people who paid for the properties were from the North, and they paid 86% of the tab on them.

No they didn't. All three of the forts that they siezed after Anderson moved into Sumter were constructed before the US army took command of any of them. Heck, Fort Johnson was built by the British back in 1708! Moultrie was in use during the revolution and Pinckney, standing on a long-recognized battery post, was completed by SC in the 1790's. They were all transfered conditionally to the feds in 1805 by the SC legislation. The transfer was without any compensation to SC for building them. The people of South Carolina owed the yankees NOTHING for those three forts when they took them. Yet they offered to pay anyway in hopes that it would bring about a peaceful settlement.

[stand watie]

SILLY answer.

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