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.
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