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To: MeDroogies who wrote (385)	7/1/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: I Am John Galt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13060

The federal government is made up of representatives throughout the entire country. You seem to forget that you elect your federal government. It was an overagressive US Legislative branch that caused the Civil War from both sides. Also, check your history. Nowhere was it written that Lincoln would abolish slavery when he was elected. He was open to debate on that issue. It was factions that caused that war, and a strong federal government would not have allowed this. The states are more united than ever because we have a strong federal government. If you don't believe me, read a US history book. Matty Gregg

To: MeDroogies who wrote (385)	7/2/1998 12:38:00 AM
From: Daniel W. Koehler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13060

MeDroogies I'm with you on the issue of the South and the Civil War. Robert Higgs, a noted historian and Libertarian, spoke on the economic roots of the Civil War at a Von Mises Society meeting I attended in Las Vegas several years ago. According to Higgs, the protective tariffs imposed by the North at that time protected the inefficient New England textile mills against cheaper, better quality textiles made in the then state-of-the-art mills in England. This reduced England's imports of Southern cotton and hurt the South economically such that it contributed greatly to the secessionist sentiment especially when the North refused to remove the tariff. Government can basically do two things well - tax the productive and subsidize the less productive. Here's a case of subsidization contributing to our greatest national tragedy. Ciao, Daniel