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To: Gauguin who wrote (13252)	10/6/1998 10:10:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

The southerners often appealed to the example of another band of separatists, the colonials who threw off the British yoke 80 years before. The first secession crisis occurred during the War of 1812, when some New England states threatened secession. South Carolina seems to have seceded in 1832 over the tariff; the Carolinians refused to allow the tax to be collected (the federal collection site surely was the fort in Charleston harbor, Sumter). President Jackson, a southerner, was ready to send in the army but the issue became moot and both sides declared victory. The Deep South seceded when Lincoln was elected, but upper south states didn't go along. What drove Virginia and North Carolina into the Confederacy was what caused Robert E Lee to turn down Lincoln's offer of command of the Union Army. Invasion. Lee opposed secession, but he wouldn't take up arms against his own people. And if Lincoln intended to invade, Lee would defend his homeland. Lee's own house, or at least that of his wife, was an early casualty of the war. It's Arlington House, and you see it directly above John Kennedy's gravesite. It was confiscated by the Union Army, and the grounds were turned into a graveyard, today known as Arlington National Cemetary.