{"id":72502,"date":"2024-02-05T04:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T10:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=72502"},"modified":"2024-02-05T04:17:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T10:17:41","slug":"know-your-real-civil-war-history-lincolns-tariff-war-march-2-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/know-your-real-civil-war-history-lincolns-tariff-war-march-2-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Real Civil War History: Lincoln\u2019s Tariff War ~ March 2, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lincoln\u2019s Tariff War ~ March 2, 1861<\/a><\/h1>\n

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When Charles Adams published his book\u00a0For Good and Evil<\/a><\/em>, a world history of taxation, the most controversial chapter by far was the one on whether or not tariffs caused the American War between the States. That chapter generated so much discussion and debate that Adams\u2019s publisher urged him to turn it into an entire book, which he did, in the form of\u00a0When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession<\/a><\/em>.<\/h2>\n

Many of the reviewers of this second book, so confident were they that slavery was the one and only possible reason for both Abraham Lincoln\u2019s election to the presidency and the war itself, excoriated Adams for his analysis that the tariff issue was a major cause of the war.\u00a0<\/span>(Adams recently told me in an email that after one presentation to a New York City audience, he felt lucky that \u201cno one brought a rope.\u201d)<\/h2>\n

My book,\u00a0The Real Lincoln<\/a><\/em>, has received much the same response with regard to the tariff issue. But there is overwhelming evidence that: 1) Lincoln, a failed one-term congressman, would never have been elected had it not been for his career-long devotion to protectionism; and 2) the 1861 Morrill tariff, which Lincoln was expected to enforce, was the event that triggered Lincoln\u2019s invasion, which resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans.Charles T Pace, Thomas…<\/span>Best Price:\u00a0<\/span>$23.39<\/span><\/span>Buy New\u00a0<\/span>$19.95<\/span><\/span>(as of 11:10 UTC –\u00a0Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Lincoln\u2019s Tariff War ~ March 2, 1861   When Charles Adams published his book\u00a0For Good and Evil, a world history of taxation, the most controversial chapter by far was the one on whether or not tariffs caused the American War between the States. That chapter generated so much discussion and debate that Adams\u2019s publisher urged…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5773,5523,475,476,8448,14953,14779,5586,3725],"tags":[16081,17059,16976,4601,7864],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72507,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72502\/revisions\/72507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}