Dothan speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Apr. 28, 2023

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Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Dothan Eagle.

Monday, April 24, is Confederate Memorial Day, which honors our 800,000 Confederate States Veterans who defended the South from Abraham Lincoln's treasonous invasion of the sovereign states to collect his oppressive 200% tax on steel plows and iron stoves used by pioneer farmers.

This horrendous tax then allowed the Northern steel industry to raise prices 200% and “price gouge" farmers.writes: “We will be in a fix, with Free Trade at every Southern port and a prohibitory Morrill Tariff at New York. The duty on German machinery steel will be 216% and on blistered steel, 211%.”

On March 4, 1861, in his first Inaugural Address, Lincoln endorses permanent slavery: “A proposed Amendment to the Constitution has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service . Holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional Law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.

“The power confided to me will be used to collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion.”writes: “The tax revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the Rebel States.

On April 5, 1861, to collect these high taxes, Lincoln then starts the war by ordering the invasion of Florida and South Carolina with 11 warships under the

 

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