The Economics of the Civil War

LewRockwell.com ^ | January 13, 2004 | Mark Thornton and Robert Ekelund

[stand watie]

the ONLY MAIN issue was FREEDOM for dixie.

that is the plain unvarnished TRUTH.

the damnyankee apologists want to say that chattel slavery was the issue, as it makes their merciless,hateFILLED,imperialist war against the new dixie republic and the THOUSANDS of atrocities against innocent civilians & helpless CSA POWs look better. the damnedyankee apologists,otoh, KNOW better.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

also true.<P.free dixie NOW,sw

[rebelyell]

Dishonest abe raised an army to invade our states. All we wanted was to be left alone, we had no desire to bother the states that remained in the union. Instead, a tyrant with little regard for the Constitution waged a war that resulted in the deaths of 600,000 men and of the republic our founders gave us.

[archy]

Because the plural of "cannon" is "cannon"; hearing it or reading it with the "s" on the end particularly grates on my ear. Just indulging a personal peeve.

As it was for one of my former editors, who was fond of letting anyone who misused that [or the terms pom-poms or shrapnel] that the only time the plural of cannon should conclude with the letter *s* was when it was in a quotation, or in conjunction with the plural term *artillerymens*, as per: The artillerymens pulled their cannons over the hill.

He seemed quite pleased with me when I picked up the John Beidler journalism award for 1991, for which the accompanying presentation plaque includes a small brass cannon. And if I ever get another one of them, I'll have two of those little cannon.

-archy-/-

[stand watie]

EXACTLY so!

lincoln, the GREAT spiller of innocent blood,stone RACIST,tyrant & CHEAP politician was no better than wee willie klintoon, in any regard.

free dixie,sw

[rebelyell]

It is truly a disgrace that American children are taught that he was a great president.

[stand watie]

YEP, it IS!

SADLY, i fear the children of generation Z will be taught that we willie klintoon was a great POTUS & a MORAL man.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

YEP, it IS!

SADLY, i fear the children of generation Z will be taught that we willie klintoon was a great POTUS & a MORAL man.

free dixie,sw

[Non-Sequitur]

All we wanted was to be left alone, we had no desire to bother the states that remained in the union.

It should be noted that you were being left alone until you got frisky and shot up Fort Sumter. You didn't think that we wouldn't be a little miffed at that?

[Aurelius]

I see that the online MSN dictionary gives the plural as "cannons" and a 1954 Funk & Wagnalls allows either form without preference. Just a sign of the degeneracy of the times in which we live.

[Mark17]

You didn't think that we wouldn't be a little miffed at that?

LOL, Non Seq, I thought you were old, but I did not think you were so old you were at Ft Sumter. Sorry, couldn't resist it.

[Non-Sequitur]

LOL, Non Seq, I thought you were old, but I did not think you were so old you were at Ft Sumter.

A common error. I'm not really that old, I'm just wise beyond my years.

[rebelyell]

Yes, we know. You think the u.S. owned Ft. Sumter because it was, up until Dec. 20th 1860, a military base for that country. The simple fact that it is in the state of South Carolina means nothing to you.

[Arthur McGowan]

Well, I'm just glad it wasn't because you thought it was supposed to be "canons."

[Non-Sequitur]

You think the u.S. owned Ft. Sumter because it was, up until Dec. 20th 1860, a military base for that country.

The U.S. did own Fort Sumter. It was built by the government on land deeded to the government free and clear by the South Carolina legislature. The legal ownership was not in question.

The simple fact that it is in the state of South Carolina means nothing to you.

No. Why would that make a difference?

[Jim Noble]

Some now teach that slavery was the sole cause of the Civil War – an explanation that historians have developed in the twentieth century

Oh, no! Here we go again!

"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. "-Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

That was in the nineteenth century, last time I looked.

[PistolPaknMama]

Do you really think men will fight and die over tarriff policy? Men will fight to preserve their families, their culture, and their way of life.

If the tarriff policy effects their families, their culture and their way of life. What about the American Revolution? What is it you think got the colonists so riled up?

[Jokelahoma]

Just out of curiosity, which is worse: Citing Lincoln to rebut a post from LewRockwell.com, or citing Jonah Goldberg?

< munching popcorn, because this beats pay per view for action and drama any day >

[Jim Noble]

Just out of curiosity, which is worse: Citing Lincoln to rebut a post from LewRockwell.com, or citing Jonah Goldberg?

Jonah.

No contest.

[hosepipe]

Why did almost ALL confederates that never owned slaves go to war..? ..State rights... which were suborned more and more by the north.. thats why..