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 Posted: Wed Sep 5th, 2007 08:17 pm
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  In the early days of the Republic, the southern states held their own in terms of political power, but as the 19th century progressed, this began to change. As southerners saw it, the Congress began to favor northern interests at the expense of the south. To them, the gradual loss of political power meant the loss of economic power.

You make it hard to argue with you TD, but I must take issue that "Congress began to favor northern inerest at the expense of the south." Most ceretainly the balance of power was swinging the other way, but it hadn't yet.

The "north" had fallen all over itself making concessions to the desires of the "south." The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 is but one example. Another is ithe first 13th Amendment. Still another is the Committee of 33. It's not like the southern leaders had no alternatives.

It is quite apparent that the political power in the south was heading for a country of its own.....no matter what.  I see nothing "noble" in that. The "south" pure and simple, fell prey to a small but vicious group of secessionists. In short, it got screwed, royally.

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