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Entry: The Limits of Lincoln Bashing Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_limits_of_lincoln_bashing#24352 Post contents: To Sid: The Morrill Tariff was passed by a DEMOCRATIC administration, not a REPUBLICAN one, in the dying days of the Buchanan administration. Maybe you should do your homework for once. And if you want to argue about economics, consider this. The South's attachment to slavery held back the development of the entire nation, the South included: slavery is far pricier than capitalism. Yes, your hero DiLorenzo claims that the North could have compensated the Southern slave-owners (as the British did in the 1830s throughout their empire), but the Brits were facing a fraction of the number of slaves that the South had. My point is that the South was stubbornly hanging onto slavery and even desired to expand it in the Western territories and Central America. Don't they teach all this in high schools anymore? Sent at: 2008 07 24