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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (489968)	11/10/2003 10:57:24 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Do you dispute the 87% figure? i.e., that 87% of the federal tariff revenue came from the Southern states in 1860. The issue is this: that figure cannot be considered fact until it is supported by some valid source. No such source has been submitted. The onus is not upon me to support it. It is upon you. Moreover, should you support the figure, you must support by reason and historical authority that it presented circumstances that caused the Civil War. You have not done that and neither did the ridiculous ideologue Lew Rockwell. Appealing to Charles Adams does not work here because not only is his book a hack job (I will show this if you like), but Adams is not even a Civil War historian. If you dispute this figure, what was the actual figure? And, can you provide a source? I do not know the actual figure and do not need to know it because it is not germane to my position (which happens to be the position of virtually all reputable historians). I admit that tariff politics influenced tensions prior to the war. But I also know that tariff levels were set back to 1816 levels in 1832. And even tariffs were linked to slavery even as far back as 1783.