- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- South of the North 40
I didn't say they aren't southern, I said they aren't southern supporters. Please define "southern supporters." Is my wife & her family, who were born & raised in SC somehow not southern because they religiously view the CS as being on the wrong side of history? We don't know what was in the politicians heads or what their true reasons were, Actually we do, many of the Seccession documents still exist & they are quite clear about what they were thinking. only them and God know. But it was legal and right, in their eyes. Let me just quote the Declaration of Independence for a moment, "-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." If the politicians and southern people believed that the government was trampling their rights, they had a right in themselves to secede. All men are created equal & all that jazz. Perhaps they believed they had a legal right to Secede. Did they have the right to open fire on US flagged ships & installations, seize property & mail etc? Slavery might have been the straw that broke the camels back, but it wasn't the only reason. Tariffs in the south were raised to 45% when South Carolina decided to secede. No, they weren't. Show me a period Secessionist complain of the tarrif. When asked, "Why not let the South go in peace?" Lincoln replied: "I can't let them go. Who would pay for the government?" No he did not, modern revisionist horse scat.
Please cite your sources, though I'm more than willing to wager a big one is DiLorenzo & the Kennedy brothers neither of which include a whole lot of history. There are other options, including on the net. The search engine here can give a lot of info on the tariff, both the reality & the fantasy. If you aren't willing to study or learn... you will always be at a disadvantage compared to those who are.
But the what if's of life are a waste of time & energy. I prefer to study the what was over the coulda, shoulda, woulda's.