I was arguing with a libertarian and he mentioned Thomas Jefferson's 1792 letter to George Washington in that he predicted secession. I would like people's opinions on this:
"you are citing your own woke revisionist history, which does not appear in any history books prior to 1960. In his 1792 letter to Washington, Jefferson predicted that the South would secede for reasons that had noting to do with Slavery. The causes were:
* A massive public debt to Northern banks,
* Tariffs,
* Excise taxes such as the Whiskey Tax, which produced revolt in all agrarian sectors,
* A shortage of government money and artificial dependence on bank notes,
* A corrupt legislature that ignores Constitutional limits,
* A shift toward monarchial behavior,
* Debt slavery,
* Consistent sacrifice of Southern interests to Northern ones,
* A reinterpretation of the Constitution to allow what Federalists had declared it would not allow,
Jefferson wanted Washington to accept a second term so that the union would hold until these problems could be corrected, but they were never corrected more than temporarily (as when Jefferson paid down the debt, only to see it reinstituted). To the contrary, they became continually worse, with 80% of the tariffs being collected on goods consumed in the South and 70% of the revenue spent in the North, with bounties paid to Northern fishermen and outrageous tariffs to protect Northern industries, and with a massive expansion of abuses by Northern banks.
None of this can be acknowledged by the woke revisionists, who are obsessed with blaming everything on slavery. Instead, they must cherry-pick documents to support their claims, and additionally cherry-pick passages to support their interpretations of those documents.
Well, see what you can cherry-pick from this:
If have never heard this letter discussed before regarding secession and would like more educated a
"you are citing your own woke revisionist history, which does not appear in any history books prior to 1960. In his 1792 letter to Washington, Jefferson predicted that the South would secede for reasons that had noting to do with Slavery. The causes were:
* A massive public debt to Northern banks,
* Tariffs,
* Excise taxes such as the Whiskey Tax, which produced revolt in all agrarian sectors,
* A shortage of government money and artificial dependence on bank notes,
* A corrupt legislature that ignores Constitutional limits,
* A shift toward monarchial behavior,
* Debt slavery,
* Consistent sacrifice of Southern interests to Northern ones,
* A reinterpretation of the Constitution to allow what Federalists had declared it would not allow,
Jefferson wanted Washington to accept a second term so that the union would hold until these problems could be corrected, but they were never corrected more than temporarily (as when Jefferson paid down the debt, only to see it reinstituted). To the contrary, they became continually worse, with 80% of the tariffs being collected on goods consumed in the South and 70% of the revenue spent in the North, with bounties paid to Northern fishermen and outrageous tariffs to protect Northern industries, and with a massive expansion of abuses by Northern banks.
None of this can be acknowledged by the woke revisionists, who are obsessed with blaming everything on slavery. Instead, they must cherry-pick documents to support their claims, and additionally cherry-pick passages to support their interpretations of those documents.
Well, see what you can cherry-pick from this:
Founders Online: From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 May 1792
From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 May 1792
founders.archives.gov
If have never heard this letter discussed before regarding secession and would like more educated a