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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9792)6/14/2001 1:18:05 AM
From: Father Terrence  Read Replies (2) of 59480
 
What states did not realize when they joined the Union was there were many laws and procedures to become part of the Union, but absolutely nothing written on how to secede.

It is a dilemma that still faces us today. For instance, what would happen if the majority of Alaskans or Texans voted to become their own country, secede from the Union and declare themselves Republics?

As for slavery, with the introduction of the cotton gin and other farming technology slavery would have died on it's own by the 1880s, I agree with you. I am not so sure the South would have become like Mexico was for most of the 20th Century -- unless, like Mexico, the South chose socialism.

In any case, the REAL motivation in Washington was NOT to allow any state to secede from the Union for ANY purpose. Slavery was a secondary issue -- one that had been tolerated and would have continued to have been tolerated had certain Southern states not decided to return more to a form of government based on the original Articles of Confederation pre-1789 and turn their backs on the Constitution.

I suggest you read some of the editorials about this issue in the major papers (say the New York and Atlanta papers) from 1855 to 1860. You'll discover the REAL history there, not the revisionist government-created story that has evolved during the past 136 years.
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