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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Catfish who wrote (119654)	12/26/2000 10:23:34 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) of 769667

<Jack Anderson, who now writes for the Washington Post, is hardly a conservative writer. < I don't think the issue is conservative or liberal. I think the issue is the accuracy of his history. While there were certainly strong underlying economic conflicts that were part of the equation, they too were tied to slavery with the South's agrarian(slave based agrarian) economy increasingly at odds with the North's industrial economy. I'll give you one simple example of how poor his understanding of things was. He suggests that had Lincoln simply "blockaded" the 7 deep south states that had seceded it would have ended the rebellion and kept the others in the Union. First, at the time of Fort Sumpter there were less than 30 servicable vessels in the U.S. Navy. Second, it took almost three years before the blockade became really effective and even then it was only because so many ports were captured by Union forces. Its worth remembering that one of Lincoln's first acts was to declare a blockade and it was seen as a joke for almost two years because there simply was no way to effectively do it.

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