Comments on: A Response to Hallmarks of the Politically Correct Myth of the American Civil War, Part 1 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2009/11/12/a-response-to-hallmarks-of-the-politically-correct-myth-of-the-american-civil-war-part-1/ The Order of Civil War Obsessively Compulsed - Informed Amateurs Blog the American Civil War Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:03:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Dan http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2009/11/12/a-response-to-hallmarks-of-the-politically-correct-myth-of-the-american-civil-war-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6228 Dan Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:59:25 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=7672#comment-6228 >There was a plan promoted in the US Congress >by the more radical politicians (led by >Thaddeus Stevens) to confiscate land owned >by former Confederates. >Fortunately, the majority were able to foresee >what you describe. It was voted down by a >large margin. From what little I've read about the plan, it faltered in part because of pressure from Northern business interests. They were suddenly concerned that confiscation and redistribution, once established as a precedent, might be used against them by various immigrant, socialist, and other groups in the North. >There was a plan promoted in the US Congress >by the more radical politicians (led by >Thaddeus Stevens) to confiscate land owned >by former Confederates.
>Fortunately, the majority were able to foresee >what you describe. It was voted down by a >large margin.

From what little I’ve read about the plan, it faltered in part because of pressure from Northern business interests. They were suddenly concerned that confiscation and redistribution, once established as a precedent, might be used against them by various immigrant, socialist, and other groups in the North.

]]> By: BR http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2009/11/12/a-response-to-hallmarks-of-the-politically-correct-myth-of-the-american-civil-war-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-6210 BR Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:38:14 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=7672#comment-6210 "This assertion, though I wasn’t aware of it prior to reading Jim’s essay, is patently absurd. Any attempt to do something like this would have led to guerrilla warfare on a grand scale. Former Confederates would not have stood idly by while the Federal government took everything they owned." *** There was a plan promoted in the US Congress by the more radical politicians (led by Thaddeus Stevens) to confiscate land owned by former Confederates. Fortunately, the majority were able to foresee what you describe. It was voted down by a large margin. “This assertion, though I wasn’t aware of it prior to reading Jim’s essay, is patently absurd. Any attempt to do something like this would have led to guerrilla warfare on a grand scale. Former Confederates would not have stood idly by while the Federal government took everything they owned.”

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There was a plan promoted in the US Congress by the more radical politicians (led by Thaddeus Stevens) to confiscate land owned by former Confederates.

Fortunately, the majority were able to foresee what you describe. It was voted down by a large margin.

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