Always present on every thread honoring southern leaders and southern heritage but clueless on historical facts. Clueless about the enourmous wealth of the South due to cash crops like Cotton, Tobacco and Sorghum. Clueless about the levy on cotton that came to millions of dollars. Clueless apparently that the cotton trade to Britain and Europe from the South would amount to billions nowadays. Why do you think that is?
If I could only think of it. Oh wait TROLL! That’s it Troll! :-)
Troll: submit a deliberately provocative posting to an online message board with the aim of inciting an angry response.
Trolling from your third floor walk up in Queens? :-)
Please provide evidence that I have ever claimed the South was not wealthy prior to the War.
While you’re at it, I’m still waiting for evidence that a levy on cotton, to the amount of millions of dollars, or for that matter a single dollar, existed prior to the war and can therefore be a possibility as a cause of the war.
There never was any such levy.
Please feel free to post facts showing where I’m wrong. Calling names only makes the caller look stupid, especially when you initiate it. My responses to you and others have always been respectful in tone, even when you post egregiously inaccurate “facts,” and then claim that the fact that they are untrue is irrelevant.
FWIW, I have repeatedly defended RE Lee and other southerners as men of honor, in contrast to some around here who call them traitors.
How about some proof? I looked up cotton levies of the 1850s and found nothing. Where is this cotton levy you speak of.