Posted on 09/06/2003 9:14:08 AM PDT by quidnunc
Wrong. Cotton was by far the largest southern AND American crop, but if IIRC tobacco was about 8-10% of the total export market in its own right. Those two were the main crops of the south accordingly and they were indisputably economic successes.
and it did it by raping the land and leaving it in ruins.
Cotton production ability was at its height in 1860 and showed no signs of any slowing down as the so-called "ruins" you describe would eventually necessitate. Thus it is perfectly reasonable to identify that claim as yet another gratuitous example of the flatus voci that eminate from your head, and in doing so to reject it accordingly.
As to the remainder of your tirade, I need only note that you have yet to supply any substantial rebuttal to the hard and indisputable economic fact that southern cotton alone provided 65% of the entire nation's exports in a given year. You have speculated upon reasons to diminish or dismiss this fact, yet offer no substance and no specifics to validate so much as a single one of them. That may work over at your Sally Struthers University GED-by-video class but not here. In the real world that time-honored rule of logical discourse applies: quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur. You either have to substantiate your claims or you may expect to see them treated as meritless ramblings. So let me be the first to welcome you to the big leagues by making note of the fact that it is time for you to either put up or shut up.
I'm told that the following book will almost assuredly provide you with a comprehensible introduction into the realm of critical thinking at a reading level that surely cannot be too far ahead of your own:
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In the case that it is too difficult for you though just drop me a freepmail and I will happily point you in the direction of a simpler text for your demonstrably simple mind.
and SILLY to boot.
ROTFL!
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
he both hated & feared "persons of colour", whether those persons were black, brown, asian, red or "muddy-coloured" (read "mixed bloods") people (like me for example).
lincoln was nothing more or less than a cheap, power-hungry politician of the KLINTOONesque sort.
that(sadly for damnyankees & eltists of the revisionist sort) is the un-varnished truth.
free dixie,sw
the attack on Ft Sumpter was a convienient date for the damnyankees to admit that we southrons had been at war with the damnyankees for at least 5 years.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
PLEASE explain then the words of GEN U.S. Grant(1876):
"Had the late war been to perserve the institution of chattal slavery, i would have offered my sword to the southland. the ONLY cause of the war was to PERSERVE the UNION." (emphasis mine.)
the ONLY LEGITIMATE CAUSE of the WBTS was dixie LIBERTY.
nothing else is TRUE; not then, not now.
free dixie,sw
i do NOT know of a single Indian, who likes that PC-term = native americans, which came out of the poison ivy league & self-righteous LEFT (unless you ONLY mean that the person was born in the Americas.)in the 1960s. not one!
free dixie,sw
The only joke here is that you think a tariff that was written around January of 1860, passed in the House in March of 1860, passed in the Senate in February of 1861 and signed into law a few days later was somehow designed as a response measure to a war that began in April 1861. Not only does your interpretation of the Morrill act defy history as it happened. It also defies the timeline itself!
But please do proceed - I find it highly amusing to observe the degree to which you are willing to embarass yourself rather than admitting your ignorance and error on the tariff issue.
thankfully, he is also not particuliarly bright or well-read.
what he does do well is post long, boring,frequently off-point passages of self-serving damnyankee drivel & propaganda (most of which he does NOT understand!)
the only DANGEROUS (to dixie freedom) pro-yankee voice on FR is NON-Sequiter (underestimate him at your peril.); the rest of the walt brigade are loons, dumb-bunnies & PC-fools.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
as yet another poster of SILLY, anti-southern NON-SENSE, you too serve the cause of dixie LIBERTY.
free dixie,sw
just Paleo-Confederates from old rebel familes, who have NOT forgotten how grand it was to breathe free dixie air.
free dixie,sw
what a mess to clean up!
free dixie,sw
i'd heard that the staff tossed you off the site.
free dixie,sw
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