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Freedom and Federalism

- Tom DiLorenzo -

Jim, your critique of Mr. Dilorenzo's tract is terribly flawed and representative of a century of indoctrination and 'history' written by the victors. The Civil War was fought primarily because northern industrialists wanted to force a huge tariff upon the South that would have crippled this region economically and would have reduced the southern states and any subsequent states to the status of economic satellites of northern interests.

Slavery was initially not an issue. You imply that the slavery issue could not have been peacefully resolved, yet in other areas of the world, slavery was abolished in a peaceful manner. Also, before hostilities commenced, southern delegations tried to negotiate with Washington, D.C. and peacefully resolve their differences, but the remaining Congress flatly refused to discuss or even listen to the representatives from the South. Southern political leaders implored the North to allow them to leave the union in peace.

Northern armies at the onset invaded the southern states on numerous occasions and from different directions. Also, the northern officials, both political and military, were very disingenuous and hypocritical regarding their initial and stated goals. Just examine some of the congressional archives, the records. Northern generals waged a brutal and unnecessary war on southern civilians, killing thousands; actions that were tantamount to genocide. Southern armies and their officer corps, on the two occasions they invaded northern territory, did not behave towards the northern civilian poplulation in that brutal manner; far from it. From the southern standpoint, it was a defensive struggle.

There are other points to be made, but in the interest of brevity, I will close this humble comment with the statement that the Civil War was the second war for independence fought on our soil, and it was lost. And the results of that terrible conflict are the reasons, directly and indirectly, why we are in the horrible state we are in today.

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