To: Blood of Tyrants
Was the South represented in the House?
Was the South represented in the Senate?
Were there Southerners on the Supreme Court?
Were Southerners denied the vote?
Did not the North go out of their way to tolerate the South's "peculiar institution?"
Where is the tyranny?
(I already know where the rhetoric is.)
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To: capitan_refugio
Was the South represented in the House?
Was the South represented in the Senate?
Is THAT what you call huge import tarrifs meant to FORCE the South to buy inferior Northern machinery and fund Northern ideals instead of allowing them to trade freely? BTW, go and read the history behind the 14th Amendment if you want to talk about so-called "representation".
Were there Southerners on the Supreme Court?
Not after secession. BTW, Johnson's AG advised him NOT to seek treason charges against any Confederates because he was fairly sure that the Supreme Court would rule that the States had the RIGHT to seceed. Thus, invalidating the entire Northern premise for the war and showing the truth that the North was the agressor.
Were Southerners denied the vote?
Again, go to the 14th Amendment and read it. It denied voting to EVERY person who had been a Confederate soldier or had supported it in any way.
Did not the North go out of their way to tolerate the South's "peculiar institution?"
The South did not want the tolerance of the North. They simply wanted to go their own way.
Where is the tyranny?
In Lincoln's soul.
148 posted on
07/03/2003 6:46:26 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
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