Fuck you I won't do whatcha tell me!

That'll teach me to post without looking too closely. Fixed.

Is Tankiejerk moving or this comm?

Thank you

South Carolina seceded December 20, 1860, and Mississippi soon after. Emissaries came to Louisiana to influence the Governor, Legislature, and people, and it was the common assertion that, if all the Cotton States would follow the lead of South Carolina, it would diminish the chances of civil war, because a bold and determined front would deter the General Government from any measures of coercion. About this time also, viz., early in December, we received Mr. Buchanan's annual message to Congress, in which he publicly announced that the General Government had no constitutional power to "coerce a State." I confess this staggered me, and I feared that the prophecies and assertions of Alison and other European commentators on our form of government were right, and that our Constitution was a mere rope of sand, that would break with the first pressure.

The Legislature of Louisiana met on the 10th of December, and passed an act calling a convention of delegates from the people, to meet at Baton Rouge, on the 8th of January, to take into consideration the state of the Union; and, although it was universally admitted that a large majority of the voters of the State were opposed to secession, disunion, and all the steps of the South Carolinians, yet we saw that they were powerless, and that the politicians would sweep them along rapidly to the end, prearranged by their leaders in Washington. Before the ordinance of secession was passed, or the convention had assembled, on the faith of a telegraphic dispatch sent by the two Senators, Benjamin and Slidell, from their seats in the United States Senate at Washington, Governor Moore ordered the seizure of all the United States forts at the mouth of the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain, and of the United States arsenal at Baton Rouge. The forts had no garrisons, but the arsenal was held by a small company of artillery, commanded by Major Haskins, a most worthy and excellent officer, who had lost an arm in Mexico. I remember well that I was strongly and bitterly impressed by the seizure of the arsenal, which occurred on January 10, 1861.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4361/4361-h/4361-h.htm

I thank you for the particular acct which you have given me of the different Rivers to which the British have given the names of St Croix—I shall be much mistaken if they do not in other matters, as well as this, give us a good deal of trouble before we are done with them. and yet, it does not appear to me, that we have wisdom, or national policy enough to avert the evils which are impending—How should we, when contracted ideas, local pursuits, and absurd jealousy are continually leading us from those great & fundamental principles which are characteristic of wise and powerful Nations; & without which, we are no more than a rope of Sand, and shall as easily be broken.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-02-02-0267

Context for the quote?

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Slaver apologists should spend some time in dubai as a slave and see if they still hold their views afterwards.

As an American, kicking the shit out of Johnny Reb is my heritage. You have to respect that.

Also wondered

What’s the CSA?

This sticker is as based as I am

Explanation: Dixie is a pre-Civil War Southern tune. During the US Civil War, it became popular as an unofficial anthem of the pro-slavery Confederacy, while the anti-Confederacy North dropped a fire variant for liberating the South from anti-democratic slaver shitheads.

If you hum Dixie, and it is a good tune, be careful that no one mistakes you for the wrong kind of Dixie enjoyer!

As Abraham Lincoln himself said, slightly tongue-in-cheek, at the conclusion of the war...

I have always thought `Dixie’ one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it. I presented the question to the Attorney General, and he gave it as his legal opinion that it is our lawful prize.

Furmanposting

I want to believe

John Brown was working for the aliens 😶‍🌫️

I mean he's right you know

Just look at Anubis

This is peak performance.

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As mentioned in the explanation:

While the notion that policing forces in the US grew out of slave patrols is widespread, it is not strictly speaking true - in the 1850s, many locales simply did not have formal policing forces, which was still a cutting-edge innovation from Britain (see: Peele's Principles ). In the post-Civil War era, Federal Reconstruction in the South led to an increasing need for abstract law enforcement which did not rely on mob consensus.

Weren't most early police forces actually slave catchers?

Explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liberty_Place

While the notion that policing forces in the US grew out of slave patrols is widespread, it is not strictly speaking true - in the 1850s, many locales simply did not have formal policing forces, which was still a cutting-edge innovation from Britain (see: Peele's Principles ). In the post-Civil War era, Federal Reconstruction in the South led to an increasing need for abstract law enforcement which did not rely on mob consensus.

Sadly, the reversal of Reconstruction resulted in many of those newly-established law enforcement organizations in the South being taken over or subverted by the enduring racist majority; while in the North they took the more 'usual' route of being subverted by monied interests in politics. Later, US policing would become more insular and a political power in and of itself, which was... not really any better.

I can't believe the protestors would do such a horrible thing. Did nobody teach them to finish what they started? Same mistake we made with the Confederacy the first time.

Ahh, that's probably it. Thanks!