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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (9808)	6/14/2001 9:56:58 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

The slavery issue was simmering beneath the surface for years, but it was the idea of tariff free ports that made the mercantile interests in the North (for whom Lincoln was the bagman) declare war on the South. The great Northwest was opening up to shipping, and Boston and New York were profiting nicely. Imagine the shift of wealth if Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans went duty free as planned. It was a situation the North could not tolerate.

To: Neocon who wrote (9808)	6/14/2001 2:08:55 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

This is the REAL crux, which you chose not to highlight: There is another, lying back of it, with which this is intimately connected, that may be regarded as the great and primary cause. That is to be found in the fact that the equilibrium between the two sections in the Government, as it stood when the Constitution was ratified and the Government put in action has been destroyed. At that time there was nearly a perfect equilibrium between the two, which afforded ample means to each to protect itself against the aggression of the other; but, as it now stands, one section has the exclusive power of controlling the Government, which leaves the other without any adequate means of protecting itself against its encroachment and oppression. . . . Slavery was cited as ONE cause, but the underlying reason for discontentment was the emerging imbalance of power between the individual states and the federal power structure; an imbalance that was becoming so pronounced that it undermined the original structure fashioned by the men who created this country after the Revolution. That imbalance is far worse today, of course. Now the federal government routinely violates the rights of individual citizens with expediency and relative impunity. FT