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Jim C.
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>What Americans Used To Know  - Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell
What taxes that you say Lincoln personally impose are you talking about? He was inaugurated on March 4th, 1861. As President Elect his policy was to say, and do nothing to give the South reason to secede. Can you point to anything in that time period to refute that?

The South fired on Fort Sumter on April 12th, a bare 2 months after Lincoln assumed the Presidency. The issue was slavery and the Republican Party's, and Lincoln's, opposition to it -- as Lincoln expressed in the debates with Douglas. It was the Southern Democrats who forced the issue with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which voided the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

The South had reason to fear for their economy with the election of Lincoln -- an economy based on slave labor.


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Beginning of the headline :"During the weeks following the [1860] election, [Northern newspaper] editors of all parties assumed that secession as a constitutional right was not in question . . . . On the contrary, the southern claim to a right of peaceable withdrawal was countenanced out of reverence for the natural law principle of government by consent of the governed." ~ Howard Cecil Perkins, editor, Northern ... Read More
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