HI Dave,

On Sun 2038-Jul-04 06:34, Dave Drum (1:261/1381) wrote to Earl Croasmun:

 ~> Uuuuuhhhhh, didn't they try that back in 1861? I'm pretty sure it was in
> ll
 ~> the media of the time.

 EC> No.  The Constitution was left intact at the time, and the attempted
 EC> dissolution was resisted by some of the states, leading to the War of
 EC> Northern Aggression.  Or was it the War for Southern Independence?

DD> The "recent unpleasantness" or "The Civil War"
... although I fail
DD> to understand how a war can be "civil".

Yah, sorto f olike that heavy rock song, the man says
"what's so civil about war anyway?"

DD> The state's rights factions just wanted to skip the convention part
DD> and go off on their own. Which they tried. Even formed their own
DD> alliance - "The Confederate States of America" whose industrial base
DD> was sadly lacking ... and which ultimately caused them to lose the
DD> debate on state's rights. 

YEp, I'm awaiting a book from the library entitled "how the
south could have won .... " don't have full and complete
from the catalogue in front of me, but the author's argument is similar to
one I"ve made, that the south could have won
if they'd attacked the north's industrial base.    According to the writer
one confederate general wanted to do just
that.

Regards,
           Richard
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