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. |