[DoodleDawg]

Was this common and accepted fact in those days? If so, why is it so dismissively shrugged off today?

I think we're discussing the events that caused Southern secession in 1860, not Calhoun's complaints of ten years prior.

[smoothsailing]

I think we're discussing the events that caused Southern secession in 1860, not Calhoun's complaints of ten years prior.

Could not the complaints have been cumulative, festering over the time of many years, and fresh in the memories of many, adding to the overall mood of the South? "A long train of abuses". By 1860 couldn't the South have just been finally fed up?

[kiryandil]

I think we're discussing the events that caused Southern secession in 1860, not Calhoun's complaints of ten years prior.

More obfuscation. Yawn.

Remember, smoothsailing. When it comes to a DOODLE! post, you have * to * parse * every * word...