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To: BenLurkin

Um, so it was the North that fired on Ft. Sumter?


43 posted on 04/10/2015 6:35:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: jmacusa

It was the North which refused to relinquish the fortification to the proper authorities. That encroachment was the first act of invasion.


47 posted on 04/10/2015 6:39:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: jmacusa

And by the way — that was one State. If the Union felt so irrevocably aggrieved by that one action that it was somehow compelled irretrievably into war. Then its war could only legitimately have been against South Carolina.

But I imagine everyone in hindsight can see that the Sumpter incident could and should have been quickly and peacefully resolved once the shooting there stopped. There was no legitimate call for a Northern invasion predicated upon that one incident.


55 posted on 04/10/2015 6:43:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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