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rebelyells

1 month ago

April 12-14 1861 Fort Sumter was fired upon. Protective Tariffs that oppressed the South were the cause of the war. Greedy industrialists in the North wanted the cotton for their factories in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. No mention of slavery was found in the Tariff Act seen below. Take note of the Seven Star First National flag at the Fort!

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Tariff of Abominations - Wikipedia

April 12-14 1861 Fort Sumter Was Fired Upon. Protective Tariffs That Oppressed The South Were The Cause

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rebelyells

2 years ago

Does this quote apply today? We could learn from Southern sympathy.

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Thomas F. Bayard and the Defense of the South, 1866-1876 – Abbeville Institute

The “carpet-bag” governments, with their grotesque legislatures, plundered and helped to plunder the States, and, not content with stealing all that there was to steal, by means of fraudulent issues of bonds thrust their rapacious claws into the pockets of unborn generations.