[StoneWall Brigade]

I am going to interrupt the tariff discussion for a second, to tell everyone that the effort to remove the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest has failed.

[PeaRidge]

One of my prized possessions is the “Gray Ghost of the Confederacy” by G. Harvey. My 10th wedding anniversary present.

[DoodleDawg]

I am going to interrupt the tariff discussion for a second, to tell everyone that the effort to remove the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest has failed.

Sanity prevailed. That doesn't happen a lot these days.

[DiogenesLamp]

I am going to interrupt the tariff discussion for a second, to tell everyone that the effort to remove the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest has failed.

Mr Chairman! Point of order. The "tariff" as the primary focus is misleading. The "tariff" is merely the means by which massive amounts of wealth were channeled to the North. The actual fight was over the disposition of the trade wealth, which was actually being steered by the tariff or the lack thereof.

Focusing on the word "tariff" makes it seem as if only a relatively small amount of money was involved. No, the amount of money involved was the nearly entirety of European Trade, plus potential losses from future competition from newly capitalized Southern industries, both shipping and manufacturing as well as insurance and banking.

New York would have acquired devastating losses and competition in the subsequent decades, and New York had the President's ear. New York was having none of it. Thus, War.

[DiogenesLamp]

I am going to interrupt the tariff discussion for a second, to tell everyone that the effort to remove the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest has failed.

Oh, and to speak to your point, it's good to see that sanity occasionally prevails.

[BroJoeK]

StoneWall Brigade: "I am going to interrupt the tariff discussion for a second, to tell everyone that the effort to remove the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest has failed."

I've mentioned before one of my great-grandfathers, fresh off the boat, served the Union in the western theater, had encounters with Forrest.
Thank God, both lived to tell the stories.