saintmichaeldefendthem
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They offered the garrison commander a chance to surrender peacefully.So you admit they fired first....ergo starting a war where no war existed beforehand. Sucks to be them....they started something they couldn't finish.One wonders how the troops were decided to be" foreign".Do you ever look at what you type before you click "post reply"?South Carolina fired the first shots. and they did so to protect the institution of slavery:
"The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. "
Avalon Project - Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
"The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."
- Alexander Stephens - Vice President of the Confederacy
Alexander Stephens Reinforces The Cornerstone
Irrelevant. Firing of foreign troops trespassing on your territory is not an act of war.
You turds will repeat this mantra endlessly: "they fired the first shots. They fired the first shots. They fired the first shots." You obviously don't give a damn about the facts or international law. You're spewing Lincoln propaganda, just as they did 150 years ago.![]()
They were union troops. SC was a sovereign country after it seceded.