--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Once the States seceded, the federal government ceased to exist and > therefor > > any properties such as forts and armories became the properties of > those > > states. > > That's the biggest pile of bull I ever heard. A sale is a sale. You > can't afterwards just declare the buyer to be non-existent :-)
Even though the American Indians (AFAIK) don't recognize the power of the Federal Government *over themselves* they don't try to reclaim the properties they sold to it, even though the US Gov't was guilty of innumerable treaty-breakings in their case. What excuse does South Carolina offer? This reeks of self-serving post-hoc justification to me. Though rather sympathetic to States' Rights in principle (and no great fan of a bloated and arrogant Federal Gov't), I just lost a little more respect for the South. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
