When Mr Bush won the last election, there were veiled threats from the losing side about a civil war.
America has never had a Civil War. The War of Southern Secession was not a civil war. It was a war between two sovereign nations. The South did not want the North's government. It had its own, duly elected. The South literally wanted nothing from the North except to be left alone. The South's problem was that they had no real exports other than cotton. had the North simply allowed the South to secede, we would have been back probably in under a year because the Southern economy was single commodity based.
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by MachineGunKelly » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:59 pm
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by MachineGunKelly » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:02 pm
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by Spook » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:52 pm
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by Spook » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:17 pm
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by Flaming Chariot » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:17 am
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by Spook » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:34 am
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by MachineGunKelly » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:38 pm
On the History channel, it was talking about a place in SC that grew tea. It was cloned from alien (foreign) tea like 300 years ago, and kept reproducing. And, the war was partially fought over state rights, if i correctly remember. besides that, slavery.
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by Spook » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:36 pm
OK, but even if this place in SC was growing tea, I doubt that they could have adequately supplied the entire Confederacy, plus any foreign market.
The war was never fought over the institution of slavery. It was entirely about state's rights. Technically, one could legally say that it was not even fought over that. Remember, the CSA's states had already seceded when the war began. That means that the CSA was already a seperate nation by a vote of the people. Not everyone in the CSA voted for secession, there were certainly loyalist hotbeds, some of which were right here in Eastern Tennessee, but enough of the people voted to make it so.
The war was fought because the US refused to allow the Confederacy its independence. The same right that the Colonies claimed to secede from England was denied to the Confederacy, making the US government of that day the biggest bunch of hypocrites on the face of the earth.
The US Constitution keeled over in 1861 and clinically died in 1865. It's been on a respirator ever since.
The war was never fought over the institution of slavery. It was entirely about state's rights. Technically, one could legally say that it was not even fought over that. Remember, the CSA's states had already seceded when the war began. That means that the CSA was already a seperate nation by a vote of the people. Not everyone in the CSA voted for secession, there were certainly loyalist hotbeds, some of which were right here in Eastern Tennessee, but enough of the people voted to make it so.
The war was fought because the US refused to allow the Confederacy its independence. The same right that the Colonies claimed to secede from England was denied to the Confederacy, making the US government of that day the biggest bunch of hypocrites on the face of the earth.
The US Constitution keeled over in 1861 and clinically died in 1865. It's been on a respirator ever since.
"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
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