Comments on: South Carolina Secession: The Truth

By: Rick Santorum Sounds Like Rachel Maddow on Nullification – Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:54:39 +0000

[...] By the way, the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina did NOT “lead to the civil war” as so many idiots claim. That happened almost 30 years prior. Read about it here. And, when the South seceded, it wasn’t an expansion of their nullification efforts. South Carolina’s complaint – which led to their secession was because of the NORTH using nullification. The secessionists were opposed to the nullifiers. Read about that one here. [...]

By: Idaho House Rejects Federal Control of Health Care – Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:46:15 +0000

[...] act, rendering that law so difficult to enforce that when South Carolina seceded a few years later, their top complaint was about northern state actions to nullify slave [...]

By: LetTexasSecede

LetTexasSecede — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:27:07 +0000

The North didn't fire first chesty….

By: ChestyPullerFan

ChestyPullerFan — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:29:30 +0000

But for the north to invade the south and bring every man woman and beast to the sword isn't in keeping with being "The Great Emancipator". It's more in keeping with "The Great Caesar". Most citizens in the south were either ambivalent or slightly against slavery, since it cut into their chances of "share cropping". No, If the north wanted to punish the true adherents to slavery, they would have economically attacked the wealthy slave owners directly. By invasion they stirred up the cause of home defense; and by the carpet baggers and repressive taxes and confiscation of personal property & animals they showed themselves the unrighteous locusts they were.

By: Philosopherking

Philosopherking — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:49:34 +0000

I agree with that but you can't ignore the slavery issue in the debate and the fact that northern states used state's rights to protect runaway slaves finally takes state's rights out of the shadow of the slavery issue. It now has the moral highground in the debate which is something it didn't have when it was used by the south to leave the union.

By: Tom Utley

Tom Utley — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:22:36 +0000

I disagree with the basic premise of this article. I think the reason South Carolina seceded was listed here best: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ordnull.a…

The author of the "causes for secession" focuses on the compact theory of the constitution and then on the failure of the states to comply to that re: slavery. However, this does not encompass all of the reasons, nor the most important reason for secession. Just like abolishing Obamacare doesn't encompass all of the reasons, nor the most important reason for nullification. Slavery was the hot-button issue for this particular author, but the reality is it was the economy-stifling tariffs that had made all Southerners slaves to the federal government.

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