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The Presidential Campaign of 1860
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
Mostly about Tariffs versus Free Trade rather than Slavery
![President Abraham Lincoln elected November 2, 1860. Favored high protective tariffs and corporate subsidies. President Abraham Lincoln elected November 2, 1860. Favored high protective tariffs and corporate subsidies.](/images/E9B798C6-9013-46C2-A46B-8391AD521DDE.jpeg)
The photo accompanying last week’s article was an 1860 Republican poster urging voters to vote straight Republican the next Tuesday, November 2 [1860]. In the top third of the poster were these words:
$ IN YOUR POCKET $
Protect Your Job—Your Farm—Your Business
The Only Issue Before the Voters is The
PROTECTIVE TARIFF
Please note carefully that the poster says:
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The Tariff Road to Civil War
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
Northern Provocation to Southern Secession
![1860 Election Poster. “The only Issue before the Voters is the Protective Tariff.” Presented a flawed sectionalist economic appeal. 1860 Election Poster. “The only Issue before the Voters is the Protective Tariff.” Presented a flawed sectionalist economic appeal.](/images/Protective-Tariff_0641.jpg)
Most Americans believe that the U.S. “Civil War” was just about slavery. They have to an enormous degree been misinformed. Since the early 1960s, powerful academic and political interests have been straining every nerve to sustain the myth that the war was a glorious moral crusade against slavery. How to handle the multi-faceted problem of slavery was often a divisive issue but not in the overly-simplified moral sense that lives in postwar and modern propaganda. Had there been no Morrill Tariff, the major cotton-exporting states would not have been so strongly compelled to secede, and there might never have been a war. Recent scholarship now estimates that the total of military deaths during the Civil War was over 750,000 and that
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Virginia Governor Northam versus Robert E. Lee
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
![Robert E. Lee - Gallant soldier, true Christian, and true American patriot Robert E. Lee - Gallant soldier, true Christian, and true American patriot](/images/18-08/images/Robert-E-Lee_0032.jpg)
Advancing Neo-Marxism and Identity Politics by Erasing Southern Heritage
Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam is pushing a bill in the Virginia Legislature to replace Robert E. Lee’s statue in the U.S. Capitol. Each state has two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Virginia’s two statues are of George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
In December, Two Virginia U.S. House Representatives, Jennifer Wexton and Donald McEachin, added momentum to replacing Lee’s statue in the Statuary Hall:
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West Virginia in the Un-Civil War
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
The Union Annexation of 50 Virginia Counties
![Confederate Monument in Romney, WV Confederate Monument in Romney, WV](/images/West-Virginia-in-the-Un-Civil-War_0638.jpg)
I have no doubt that the great majority of the people of West Virginia today believe they are better off separated from Virginia. They have their own two U.S. senators, and most importantly, they are not ruled by the wacko-leftist, anti-Second Amendment, pro-baby-disposal Democrat Governor Ralph Northam and his slavishly politically correct Neo-Marxist comrades in the Virginia Legislature. “Democrat” was once a virtual synonym for conservative, especially in the South. But that was a far cry from the present madness. The Republican Party during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods was dominated by its big-business-big-government establishment wing. That has been slowly changing since Eisenhower. Reagan was a first peak of pro-worker, pro-middle class, common sense economic and social conservatism. President Trump has been a flowering and aggressive triumph of these same principles, vanquishing titanic errors of globalism and obsequious political fashions. It is a grave mistake to assume Republican and Democrat mean the same thing today as they did in 1860.
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
The Controversy within Islam and the West
![Reliance of the Traveller - Most revered Sharia Law manual Reliance of the Traveller - Most revered Sharia Law manual](/images/Reliance-of-the-Traveller_0632.jpg)
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” FGM is particularly common in about 30 predominantly Muslim countries, but it is uncommon in as many more. Worldwide, about 22 percent of Muslim women and girls have endured FGM. There is no direct reference to FGM in the Koran, and Muhammad did not institute it. However, according to reliable Muslim scholarship, he did speak favorably of it but with a recommendation for moderation. Because Muhammad spoke of it, it has found its way into Sharia Law.
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Mike Scruggs is the author of two books: The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths; and Lessons from the Vietnam War: Truths the Media Never Told You, and over 600 articles on military history, national security, intelligent design, genealogical genetics, immigration, current political affairs, Islam, and the Middle East.
He holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Stanford University. A former USAF intelligence officer and Air Commando, he is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. He is a retired First Vice President for a major national financial services firm and former Chairman of the Board of a classical Christian school.
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