Genesis of
Conflict!
Socrates
expressed “disdain
for the established constitution”
of Athens, and taught
Alcibiades and Critias,
the students who helped
Sparta to
defeat Athens
in 411
B.C.E.
. . .
Critias “led the second
bloody revolt against the
restored
Athenian democracy
in 404
B.C.E.,”
and the “oligarchy
known as the
‘Thirty Tyrants,’
“confiscated the estates of Athenian aristocrats,
banished 5,000 women, children, and slaves,
and summarily executed about 1,500 of
Athen’s most
prominent democrats.”
“A More Perfect Union: ”
was the goal to be achieved by the Creation
of the
U.S.
Constitution.
Were they attempting to create a
Perfect
Government?
What is the explanation for
the conflict
between peaceful citizens in the
most Lawful,
prosperous,
and Free country
in recorded History?
Is it possible that
483,026 Soldiers
died and
became casualties, to
defend slavery
for Confederate States?
Should we
Beatify all
Union Soldiers?
The First Draft of
U. S. CONSTITUTION
was accepted by the convention
on Monday, August 6, 1787.
“The most serious controversy
erupted over the question of regulation of commerce.
The southern states,
exporters of raw materials,
rice, indigo, and tobacco,
were fearful that a
New England —
dominated Congress might,
through
export taxes,
severely damage the South’s
economic life.
C. C. Pinckney declared that
if Congress had the power to regulate trade,
the Southern states would be
‘nothing more than overseers for the
Northern States.’ ”
January 14, 1790,
Hamilton’s
“Report on Credit”—
“First, the government
should pay off the war bonds it had issued.
To fail to do so, he argued,
would establish the federal government as a bad debtor.
Second, the government should assume
the debts of the states.”
“Finally, he proposed that the government
establish a steady revenue stream
by taxation of
imported goods.”
August 1, 1794,
The excise tax on
Whiskey,
aroused
Western
Whiskey Rebellion
against Eastern
Reformers.
Alexander Hamilton’s “finance project
explicitly contemplated
just such a military triumph over the citizenry—
had indeed been constructed partly
to achieve such a result:”
“Mass
arrests
of American citizens”
“in the summer
and fall of 1794.”
1828 —
“Tariff
of Abomination”
and
Import
Tariff of 1832,
President Andrew Jackson
“said that nullification was paramount
to treason
and threatened to hang Calhoun and
his followers.”
John C. Calhoun endorsed nullification,
as a means of
avoiding disunion.
May 10, 1860, “The U. S. Congress
passed the Morrill
Tariff
Bill”
“raising the
average tariff
from about 15%
to 37%
with increases
to 47%
within three years.”
December 3, 1860,
the month after Lincoln was elected,
President Buchanan asked Congress to
propose an
“explanatory
amendment.”
This proposed 13th Amendment,
was to eradicate and
cover-up the deletion of the
Original Thirteenth:
Title of Nobility
and Honour Amendment.
December 20, 1860,
South
Carolina seceded, the first state
to leave the Union.
January 6, 1861,
The mayor of
New York City
gave a speech to encourage
Secession
from the union!
January, 1861,
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama,
Georgia
and Louisiana
successively
seceded
in their January conventions.
February, 1861,
Texas Secedes from the union!
Feb 27, 1861,
“JOINT RESOLUTIONS
proposing certain amendments to the Constitution of the
United States.” —
“Mr. Corwin moved
to amend”
“(H. Res. 80)”
“by striking out all after
‘Article XIII.’
and inserting in lieu thereof
the following, viz:
‘No amendment shall be made
to the Constitution
which will authorize or give to Congress
the power to abolish or interfere,
within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof,
including that of persons held to labor
or service by the
laws of said State.’ ”
Feb 28, 1861,
The Speaker announced
the motion of Mr. Kilgore
to reconsider the vote
which rejected
“(H.
Res. 80).”
Mr. Emerson Etheridge
helped pass this
joint resolution:
“And it was decided
in the affirmative,
Yeas ... 133
Nays ... 65 ”
“So the resolution was passed.
Ordered, That the Clerk
request the concurrence of
the Senate therein.”
Mar 2, 1861,
“Mr. Dawes,
from the select committee of five . . .”
“Resolved, That the Secretary of
the Navy, . . .”
“has committed a grave error, . . .”
“in accepting, without delay or inquiry,
the resignations of officers
of the navy
who were in arms
against the government . . .”
“And it was decided in the affirmative,”
95 ... 62 .
A message from the Senate:
“The
Senate
have passed a joint resolution
of this House”
(H. Res. 80).
“A message was received from
the President
of the United States, . . .
did this day
approve and sign . . . .”
H. Res. 80
Joint resolution
to amend the Constitution
of the United States.
“Mr. Speaker Pennington rose
and addressed
the House.”
“Several States
have seceded, and all their members,
with one exception,
have left this hall.
No lover of his country
can witness such an exhibition
without feelings of the deepest anxiety.”
“I still declare my willingness
to join
in measures
of compromise.”
“The resolution you have been
pleased to adopt
is truly gratifying,
and will be among my most agreeable
recollections of this place.”
The
Senate passed
(H. Res. 80).
March 4, 1861,
The Republican Party
platform of 1860
did not advocate
disturbing
Southern slavery.
Lincoln promised repeatedly
in his First Inaugural
Address, that he had no intention
of doing so.
March 11, 1861,
The Confederate
Constitution
was adopted. This specified a
small, uniform import tax;
and free trade:
Article I.
Sec. 8.,
and Forbid the importation
of negroes
of the African race
Article I. Sec. 9.
March 16, 1861,
date of Letter to the
governor
of Florida.
“If the
South had only wanted
to protect
slavery . . .”
“Southern States were
not
interested in returning
and paying unfair tariffs
. . . .”
[ Meating
of the Minds. ]
Charleston Harbor:
Crossroads, Cross Words.
Rail links to Augusta,
Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Cincinnati,
explain the growth of commerce through the
Port of Charleston.
The “
Brain Drain”
mentioned in
Atlas Shrugged,
brought the power of reason to this continent.
A clever fellow with knowledge of textile machinery
came to this land of Individual Rights
and Private Property,
and the textile industry began in New England
because of water power.
Textile mills
rewarded those who grew cotton
“in the Southern States”
“due to climatic conditions”.
Savannah River provided access
to the Atlantic
Ocean, and
Water
power
at Augusta, Georgia.
Augusta, Macon, Columbia, Chattanooga, and Cincinnati
are Southern cities with water power for Textile mills.
Inland water navigation was improved by the
rail connection to the Port of
Charleston.
Commerce from these cities to Charleston Harbor
explains why this was the economic center of the political crisis
which resulted from the industrial revolution and agricultural
development in Southern States.
Industrial work
is not economical with slave labor.
Agricultural products were more valuable because of the invention
and use of textile machinery.
Slave labor was reduced in Northern industrial States,
and rewarded in agricultural Southern States.
Advances in machinery would have quickly erased the advantage of
unskilled labor. |
Civil War begins in
Charleston Harbor
A boat bearing a white flag
approached Fort
Sumter,
“About 3:45 P.M. on April 11,” 1861.
A sentry announced the arrival of the boat
and three aides of General Beauregard
“to the officer of the day,
Lt. Jefferson Davis (no relation
to the Confederate leader)”.
These aides “were escorted to the guardroom,
where they greeted Major Anderson and handed him a dispatch
from General Beauregard.”
This was a demand to evacuate Fort Sumter
(peacefully).
“Shortly before 1 A.M.,
Friday, April 12, 1861,
the aides returned to present Major Anderson
with another communication from Beauregard which”
invited Anderson to “state the time
which you will evacuate Fort Sumter,
and agree in the meantime
that you will not use your guns against us
unless ours shall be employed against Fort Sumter,
we will abstain from opening fire
upon you.”
Col. James Chesnut, Jr.
notified Major Anderson,
after some discussion about waiting until
“noon, April 15,”
that batteries (of guns)
would open fire
“ ‘on Fort Sumter
in one hour from this time.’ ”
“Colonel Chesnut ordered
(Capt. George S.) James
to open fire
at 4:30 A.M.”
“About 1 P.M.”,
Saturday, April 13,
the flag staff
and the huge garrison flag toppled,
and “Brig. Gen. James Simons,
in command of the forces on
Morris Island, sent
Colonel
Wigfall
to Sumter
to inquire if Anderson would surrender to
General Beauregard.”
“The two discussed the condition of surrender,
that Anderson and his garrison
be allowed to leave the fort
with their arms and all company property.
Anderson, in addition, requested
permission to salute the flag.
Wigfall
then left,
after again complimenting the major
on his heroic resistance.
Actually,
Wigfall
had no authority from General Beauregard
to make terms of
surrender.
He had formerly been a
United States senator from Texas,
and recently appointed one of Beauregard’s aides
with the rank of colonel,
and he simply took it upon himself
to assume the responsibility.”
“Meanwhile,
General Beauregard had dispatched three of his aides
from the city to offer assistance
to Major Anderson.”
“They told Anderson that
they had just left the general,
who was in the city.”
“Wigfall had been on Morris Island for the last two days
and during that time had neither seen
nor communicated with Beauregard.”
“Anderson departed
from his usual serenity;” when
he learned
“— the terms
of surrender
made by Wigfall
were null and void.”
“The major then announced that
he would immediately hoist his flag,
that he regretted taking it down,
and that it would not have been lowered
if he had known that
Wigfall had not come directly from
General Beauregard.”
“The three aides realized there had been
a serious misunderstanding.
They retired for a conference to the nearest casemate,
which happened at the time to house Surgeon Crawford,
who was not well and had been taking
some medicine for his ailment.
Pryor saw a bottle nearby, poured himself a drink,
and downed it at a gulp.
What he had swalowed,
however, was not whiskey,
but iodide of potassium.
Pryor let out a cry that brought
Surgeon Crawford running
and told the doctor what had happened.
Crawford replied,
‘If you have
taken the amount of that solution
that you think you have,
you have most likely
poisoned yourself.’ ”
“He took Pryor
to the improvised dispensary
and applied a stomach pump.
Captain Doubleday and the other officers
questioned ‘the doctor’s right
to interpose in a case of this kind;’
they felt that,
if one of their enemy wanted to come over to Sumter
‘and poison himself,
the Medical Department
had no business
to interfere with such a laudable intention.’
The doctor, however,
claimed that he was responsible
to the United States
for the medicine in the hospital
and that he
‘could not permit Pryor
to carry any of it away.’ ”
“While the stomach pump
was being administered,
Miles and Lee
resumed the parley with Anderson;
they tried to convince him
of the futility of continuing the fight
and assured him that
General Beauregard
would give the same terms of surrender
outlined by Wigfall.
They finally persuaded Anderson
to put Wigfall’s terms in writing
and then hurried back to the city
to report their conversation with the major.”
The Siege of
Charleston,
1861–1865
By
E. Milby Burton.
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