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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Is it serious, or is it not?
  • Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:38:28 -0800

Bringing up the Civil War is quite appripo. 1857 was a bit like today. For those who are history inclined, they'll remember as being called the Panic of 1857. The North had relied on manufacturing and, dare I say the nasty word, B A N K I N G (sound familiar?). The South could be called the homesteaders. They relied on agriculture and the Panic didn't have much of an effect on them.

And what does any good ? politician do when the economy is down? Why start a war, of course. And what is the usual end of most wars? Why more federal powers.

Was Sumter the beginning of the war? NO! The beginning was the North trying to control the import and export of goods and the good shipping facilities of the South and going into an even bigger panic at the thought of loosing that money! The Union (Feds) imposed taxes on cotton and tariffs on exports, AND, they used military forces to be sure that these ports were controlled.

So, no, Sumter wasn't the first shot! You just won't read about the rest of it cause history is reframed by the winner!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>; <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Is it serious, or is it not?



On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:26 PM, bob ford wrote:

Can't let this softball go, James can give better explain; But, we
did not fire upon New York because they didn't give us extra money.
Lincoln's army fired upon South Carolina, for that reason. And so
it began...bobf

So Wikipedia has it wrong? Found this there at the beginning of the
third graph:

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked
a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(American)

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