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- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
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- Subject: Re: Internal/External (was Re: Scope of Action-US Military)
- Summary: Commander of the Forces Now Assembled Against Washington
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:10:38 GMT
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- From mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
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- In article <C1F7Aw.LDI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, PAUL D CHAPIN <pdchapin@unix.amherst.EDU> writes:
- > From PAUL D CHAPIN <pdchapin@unix.amherst.EDU>
- > patterson,george r (patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com) wrote:
- > : From "patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com>
- > : In article <C17vr8.Eso@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Jerry Han <jhan@debra.dgbt.doc.ca> writes:
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- > : >>Ever heard of the War Between the States (also called the Civil
- > : >>War or the Valiant Fight Against Yankee Agression)?
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- > ... At what point in a rebellion does the issue stop being an internal
- > affair, and in theory not the concern of third parties, and become a
- > dispute between nations.
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- > It could be argued that the Confederacy showed almost all the attributes of
- > a sovereign state and, therefore, alliance with a European power would have
- > not constituted interference with internal U.S. affairs. The critical area
- > that the South never controlled was its own foreign trade, which the North
- > kept under its control with the crude tool of a blockade.
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- Critical indeed. Keeping the rebellion a rebellion was a central concern
- of Lincoln. Somewhere in one of Catton's books, there is an episode in
- which Lee attempted to communicate with Lincoln; so long as Lee signed
- himself as an officer of the Confederacy Lincoln refused to reply because
- he would thereby recognize the Confederacy as an entity of its own. The
- only time he replied was when Lee styled himself something like ``Commander
- of the forces now assembled against Washington.''
-
- Blockade runners notwithstanding, the Union Navy helped to keep the
- Confederacy from being recognized; no European power was willing to do
- it unless they could trade successfully and put the new nation in their
- debt.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
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- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-