[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

[Held_to_Ransom]

Let's not forget Thompson and FLoyd who stole 800,000 dollars from the Indian Trust Funds in the form of bearer bonds before Sumter, and Floyds transfer and sale of 135,000 rifles from the Sprinfield armory alone during 1860. By the time of Sumter, all of this was already commonly known. Floyd in particular had already been called before a grand jury, but skipped town instead of showing.

Then there was Howell Cobbs planning of the timing of secession so that he could collect the 150 million in prepayments from the North for the cotton crop of 1861, and Jefferson's Davis legislation in the early confederacy that made it 'legal' for the Confederacy to sieze these funds by any means.