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Carolina Reb
May 22, 2012, 6:52:45 PM5/22/12
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"Then they got the news. On November 7 the returns from the polls made it
evident that Lincoln, despite receiving just 40 percent of the popular vote,
had carried enough states to win in the electoral count. At once secession
sentiment in Columbia seemed unanimous, and crowds gathered to call for
speeches from Rhett, Chesnut, and others. Ruffin was there, as he always
appeared when secession was in the air, and Rhett turned at once from the
immediate success to the next step, wanting to know what Virginia would do
now. Back in Charleston, the Mercury hung a flag with a palmetto and a lone
star out its upper floor window and published an exultant declaration. "The
tea has been thrown overboard," the editorial stated. "The revolution of
1860 has been initiated."
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/05/22/the-real-tea-party/
"One people simply could not harmoniously rule over another with different
institutions, industries, and social habits, and it hardly mattered to be
represented in a legislature when such a majority stood firmly in control,
for resistance was futile. "Between a representation incompetent to protect,
and no representation, there is no difference where there is conflicting
interests in a common legislative body," he argued. And what point was
there in voting for a president, when even if every single man in the
minority section should vote against the majority section's candidate "they
cannot prevent his election?" With their old Constitution subverted and
Washington in the hands of the Yankees, not just liberty but self
preservation required the secession of the South. Their permanent
sovereignty was all they needed to accomplish that, and he asserted that
"there is not a fact in all history more indisputable" than that those
states did not renounce their sovereignty when they ratified the
Constitution.
evident that Lincoln, despite receiving just 40 percent of the popular vote,
had carried enough states to win in the electoral count. At once secession
sentiment in Columbia seemed unanimous, and crowds gathered to call for
speeches from Rhett, Chesnut, and others. Ruffin was there, as he always
appeared when secession was in the air, and Rhett turned at once from the
immediate success to the next step, wanting to know what Virginia would do
now. Back in Charleston, the Mercury hung a flag with a palmetto and a lone
star out its upper floor window and published an exultant declaration. "The
tea has been thrown overboard," the editorial stated. "The revolution of
1860 has been initiated."
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/05/22/the-real-tea-party/
"One people simply could not harmoniously rule over another with different
institutions, industries, and social habits, and it hardly mattered to be
represented in a legislature when such a majority stood firmly in control,
for resistance was futile. "Between a representation incompetent to protect,
and no representation, there is no difference where there is conflicting
interests in a common legislative body," he argued. And what point was
there in voting for a president, when even if every single man in the
minority section should vote against the majority section's candidate "they
cannot prevent his election?" With their old Constitution subverted and
Washington in the hands of the Yankees, not just liberty but self
preservation required the secession of the South. Their permanent
sovereignty was all they needed to accomplish that, and he asserted that
"there is not a fact in all history more indisputable" than that those
states did not renounce their sovereignty when they ratified the
Constitution.
NEMO
May 22, 2012, 6:56:44 PM5/22/12
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You're fucking insane/bonkers/a nutter!
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