ANOTHER "PURPLE REVOLUTION"
Shortly beforeChristmas, one hundred and fifty years ago, the South Carolina legislature voted unanimously to leave the Union because northern states “have denounced as sinful the institution of Slavery.” Thus was a giant step taken on what the South hoped would be the road to the “purple dream,” a notion of a Confederate nation extending from Virginia into Latin America. Four months later, South Carolina trained its shore batteries on federal troops at Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, beginning four years of wacky and bestial Civil War.
TOM TIEDE
Shortly beforeChristmas, one hundred and fifty years ago, the South Carolina legislature voted unanimously to leave the Union because northern states “have denounced as sinful the institution of Slavery.” Thus was a giant step taken on what the South hoped would be the road to the “purple dream,” a notion of a Confederate nation extending from Virginia into Latin America. Four months later, South Carolina trained its shore batteries on federal troops at Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, beginning four years of wacky and bestial Civil War.
TOM TIEDE