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2 June
Terms of surrender of Galveston were signed on board USS Fort Jackson by Major General E. Kirby Smith on behalf of the Confederacy
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I think it was Williamington NC, with the fall of fort Fisher and Fort anderson in Jan and Feb of 1865, but I could be wrong. Charleston SC, would be my 2nd guess. Legionnaire |
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I'm going to ask a 'what if" question. I know lot of you don't like them, but it's the only way I can think of to make my point. If one one the major issues dividing North and South was tariffs., then what would Lincoln have done if the South had accepted goods sent directly to Charleston, Savanah, or Mobile by Europeon nations without paying any tariff to the federal government? Why didn't the South choose a less violent way of showing their independence if economics was the true underlying issue? |
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If one one the major issues dividing North and South was tariffs., then what would Lincoln have done if the South had accepted goods sent directly to Charleston, Savanah, or Mobile by Europeon nations without paying any tariff to the federal government? Why didn't the South choose a less violent way of showing their independence if economics was the true underlying issue? What would have kept the federals from collecting import tariffs if goods were received in the South? Imports into the U.S. are imports whether they come into a Northern port or a Southern port. |
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Dear VA:
The battle over the tarriff was
effective solved during the winter of 1832-1833, when the State of South
Carolina declared the Federal tarriff law of 1828--the so-called Tarriff of
Abominations--null and void within its borders, and refused to collect it.
President Andrew Jackson responded by federalizing the state militias of the
Northern states, declared South Carolina in a state of rebellion, and made plans
to send troops south to enforce the law. In response, in December of 1832,
the South Carolina State Legislature passed a secesession (sp?) law, declared
their independence from the rest of the United States, and invited other states
to join them.
The issue was finally settled
through negotiations between South Carolina governor Robert Haynie--a former
U.S. Senator, who had debated the issue of slavery and state sovereignty in the
Senate with Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster in 1828-1829--and the Federal
government. The issue was a non-issue by 1860.
The battles and debates that
happened between 1833 and Lincoln's election in 1860 completely cleared out the
middle ground. By 1860, the only people left on either side were anti- and
pro-slavery people. Everyone else had either joined one camp or the other,
or else had simply shut up and started keeping their heads down. While
slavery was thus not the only issue that brought on the Civil War, it was
the last big issue between the two sides, and neither one would budge. In
December 1860, the Southern states began their exodus out of the Union, and in
April the shooting war began.
And then came the
deluge.
Rabbi. |
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Dear TC:
South Carolina did that in
December 1832. That's when Jackson threatened to send troops south, and
the Civil War almost broke out right there. Fortunately, that one was
settled by negotiation, since at that time neither side really wanted war.
By 1860, neither side could see any other option.
Rabbi. |
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