[from occupied ga]

The most tyrannical act of the pre-1860 federal government -by far- was the Fugitive Slave Act --the slave states LOVED federal power when it helped them. In your opinion anyway ... You don't know the history, or you lie about it.

Sniff Sniff Sniff. I smell hypocrisy. Your posting your opinions as history and then claiming that I lie about it requires chutzpah worthy of a New Yorker. Kind of hypocritical of you to ignore the most blatant racism in the US today - affirmative action - and start raving about what happened 140 years ago. What do you think of the current US flag. Should it be changed to some homogenized blob because it is a racist symbol? You didn't make any comments about that before, so I'll ask again.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Your posting your opinions as history and then claiming that I lie about it requires chutzpah worthy of a New Yorker.

Not true; I said you might just be ignorant.

All History with a capital "H" is interpretation. What matters is how valid the interpretation is, based on the facts.

I suggest that the Fugitive Slave Act was the most intrusive federal act prior to 1860. Among other things, it allowed magistrates empowered by the act to --involuntarily-- recruit citizens to serve on posses to chase escaped slaves.

If you can find another federal statute that is more intrusive than that, you need to provide that information. After all, there weren't that many federal statutes prior to 1860.

But you are not interested in a fair exposition of the actual historical record, because it conflicts with the neo-reb myth.

Walt