In a message dated 2/24/03 11:16:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> central parts of the
> city, supplementing inadequate police power (The LA or Watts
> "Riot", "Uprising," etc.) Now, these chiefly white soldiers were
> from out of town. Would this then have been a justification to take
> up arms against them?
>
you are using post Civil War thinking......many before the war thought of
there state first then of the union particulary in Virginia. Virginia was
their home and country. I still run into to some of that sentiment even
today.... One of the thing I've noticed in read letters and speeches from
before the war is the term "these United States"......after the war is almost
always "The United States"
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