Don’t threaten me with a good time
by Training-World-1897
Don’t threaten me with a good time
by Training-World-1897
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Southerners were furious, since neither state constitution was likely to permit slavery; Members of Congress were dismayed, since they felt the President was usurping their policy-making prerogatives. In addition, Taylor’s solution ignored several acute side issues: the northern dislike of the slave market operating in the District of Columbia; and the southern demands for a more stringent fugitive slave law.
In February 1850 President Taylor had held a stormy conference with southern leaders who threatened secession. He told them that if necessary to enforce the laws, he personally would lead the Army. Persons “taken in rebellion against the Union, he would hang … with less reluctance than he had hanged deserters and spies in Mexico.” He never wavered.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1600/presidents/zacharytaylor
a reminder that most politician and even people in the US felt a Civil War was inevitable however they believed it was going to be a little skirmish with a couple small battles and be over and done with, they literally thought that until the death tolls from the fist major battle started rolling in and they all kind of realized this was going to be terrible. politicians and the public watched the battle of Bull run from a hill thinking it would be neat
Ate too much cherries
As a northerner who spent a lot of time in the south I find thier support of the rebellion hilarious. “The south will rise again” bitch didn’t even rise the first time.
Oh no, please dont take away our welfare states. Imagine not having the yoke of ignorance weigh us down.
Americans are just blood thirsty savages with the veneer of civilsation
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As a Tennessean, I am ashamed that we sided with the South.
Our state is the border between geographic north and south, okay??