"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:


Actually, according to our Constitution, state laws *should* supersede
Federal law in all but cases involving crossing state lines. Don't let
anybody kid you, the Civil war was about the north not getting its grubby
hands on taxes generated by cotton plantations (as all wars throughout
history, no matter the lip service paid to ideological beliefs, it is
*always* about money).

How true. I am reading an eye-opening novel "The Proud and the Free",
about the way our government dispossessed the Cherokee Nation, back in the
1830's. The book itself is a slightly steamy romantic novel, but the
historical background is genuine, and redeems it. These were not
"savages", but people who had adopted the White Man's ways, were educated
in Eastern U.S. schools, and had become prosperous farmers and
businessmen. (Since their territory included a good chunk of the Deep
South, many had lavish plantations, and were slave-owners.)

I *lurve* historical "novels"! One of my favorites is "Rabble in Arms" - it
gives a whole 'nother side of the story about Benedict Arnold.


I have always considered it a good joke on our government that, after
forcing the Indians into lands the White Man didn't want, they discovered
oil there, and couldn't evict them. However, that may simply mean we had
a slightly more moral government in office at the time. There were equally
binding treaties in place in the 1830's, but when President Jackson and
his cronies decided they wanted all that rich farmland and those newly
discovered goldmines in Georgia, it didn't stop them forcing new treaties
relocating the Cherokees from their ancestral lands to territory West of
the Mississippi, and using the U.S. Army to enforce the eviction. (There
are times I don't think much of the human race, and clearly Americans are
no better than anyone else.)

Yep, there seems to be no honor in government when money is involved!

Chin Skritches,

CatNipped