To inflame a beaten dead horse...State secession and slavery, circa 1860...

JasonMPD · 2015-06-29 11:24:21

I've been researching more and more about the Civil War since last year and even more with this whole Confederate flag nonsense. I hear the argument ad nauseum that secession was the result of tariff and taxation..., yet the taxes in place had been in place for more than 50 years and most of the tariffs were legislated by…

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DoctorWho Posts: 9,496 Senior Member

July 2015 #62

I have never bought into Yankee propaganda about the Civil war, being a Southern Gentleman at heart as I am...... Nothing Yankee about Me, that much I can guarantee.....

"There is some evil in all of us, Doctor, even you, the Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I may say, you do not improve with age. Founding member of the G&A forum since 1996
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