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To: hedgetrimmer

You really need to keep your fantasies straight I can’t correct them all.

The South often objected to a TARIFF never the absence of a tariff. One of the arguments the defenders of the Slavers around here often float around here was that the War was precipitated by TARIFF policy never the absence of a tariff (free trade). The War came because the Slavers feared for slavery. There was no other reason.

At one time (during the “nullification” crisis in the 1830s) Andy Jackson threatened to hang South Carolina officials if they interfered with the tariff collection in Charleston. Subsequently Congress reduced the rates in the Tariff of Abominations to which they were objecting.

The South NEVER wanted higher tariffs. Once again you are looking through the telescope from the wrong end. There was no attempt to build Southern industry behind tariff walls. Or Southern opposition to free trade.

In addition, free trade was never a policy of our government until the 20th century and even then it is only quasi free trade.

The other babbling in the post is so nonsensical that between the illiteracy and bankrupt ideas I don’t even know what point you are trying to make.


249 posted on 06/02/2011 6:57:33 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob

The “free traders” WERE the Slavers.

If you read my previous post, you’d have seen it was written in 1862!

You would have seen with your own eyes, how the “free traders” needed slavery then, just as they use communist controlled slaves now.

You don’t respond to anything I post, historical documents, current federal government policy. You just call names.

Its all you free traitors know how to do, and it was described in 1862,that the free traitors would seek to nullify representation of individuals and create a slave class— like the American taxpayer today— to pay for their perfidious agenda.

So no you haven’t responded to anything, as is the way of the free traitors. You use the Alinski method instead.

Now I’m beginning to wonder, who pays you to post here?


250 posted on 06/02/2011 10:37:30 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: arrogantsob
There was no attempt to build Southern industry behind tariff walls.

No there wasn't. Didn't you read the article? They didn't build industry because it interfered with slavery. Just like what the free traitors are doing here and now. They break down industry here, because paid free working Americans don't support slavery. But if you impoverish them by off shoring work or bringing in illegals to undercut their wages, then you can flood them with so called 'cheap goods' from communist slave labor and they don't fight back.

The South didn't oppose "free trade" because "free trade" means trading with slave produced goods. It means you can trade with anybody, slaver, bootlegger, drug smuggler because "free trade" trade with anybody for anything. It means trading slave made goods, it means trading contraband, it means trading humans. It means citizens cannot constrain 'free trade' by border inspections because it would be a 'barricade to trade' to quote GW Bush's WTO free trade agenda. If you stop people from owning slaves or using slave labor via the 13th amendment, then you are a 'barricade to trade' according to the UN, the WTO, free traitor Robert Zoellick, free traitor George W Bush and free traitor, Henry Paulson, and the numerous 'trade' rounds like Doha.
251 posted on 06/02/2011 10:49:58 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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