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To: DiogenesLamp
DiogenesLamp: "I only read a little of this one and quickly concluded that not only did you not COMPREHEND the point I was making, you simply started back in with your same old spiel."

No, your point is simply wrong.
The point of discussion here is the same one raised by some Southerners at the time: that they were carrying an unfair share of cost of Federal government.
We have seen numbers like 75% to 87% frequently mentioned here, so I am merely demonstrating those percentages are considerably off.

As for you other points, they are far less relevant because they were never used by Southerners at the time to justify their actions.

Finally, your claim that President Lincoln started civil war and invaded the South just to benefit Democrats! in New York is just too insane for words.
You have no evidence of it and abundant evidence we have shows Lincoln as a life-long mid-west lawyer whose first concerns related to keeping his oath of office to the Constitution.

Remember: in the first hour of his first day on the job Lincoln promised Confederates they could not have a war unless they themselves started it.
That was as clear and direct as anyone could ever be at any time.
When the Confederacy assaulted Union troops in Fort Sumter, that started the war, pure and simple.
Just as Pearl Harbor started WWII for the US and 9/11 the War on Terror.
All the rest of your speculation is just pure gobbledygook psychobabble, imho.

Here is the real reason for Civil War:

1,283 posted on 10/04/2016 2:03:33 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK
No, your point is simply wrong.

No it isn't, and you haven't even attempted to address it.

1,286 posted on 10/04/2016 2:38:36 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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