The Southern Confederacy will not employ our ships or buy our goods.
What is our shipping without it? Literally nothing....
It is very clear that the South gains by this process, and we lose.
No---we MUST NOT 'let the South go.' -
--- Union Democrat , Manchester, NH, February 19, 1861
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Sophie Mae, this is priceless. Folk jes' doan know what the score is about the history of the aggression against the South.
THar's a great book written by a yankee tax attorney that makes the case for why the South had every right to secede:
When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession by Charles Adams.
Aint B, thanks ever so for pointing me toward that book! Yes, sadly, the 'victor' (mis)writes the history. If somebody in Flarda don't get a backbone soonly, we might just have to move to TX. *sigh*
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