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  • How the Civil War Really Started, a TAX ship

    How the Civil War Really Started, a TAX ship

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    Ryan Dawson
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    Lincoln’s first written message to congress was about taxes. “My policy sought only to collect the Revenue (a 40 percent federal sales tax on imports to Southern States under the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861).” reads paragraph 5 of Lincoln’s First Message to the U.S. Congress, penned July 4, 1861. “I have no purpose, directly…