by editor | Aug 16, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The French classical economist Frédéric Bastiat once remarked, “when goods do not cross borders, armies will.” Democratic Senator James Hammond of South Carolina infamously agreed with those sentiments on March 4, 1858, nearly eight years after Bastiat’s death. In a...
by editor | Jun 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Civil War buffs have long speculated about how different the war might have been if only the Confederacy had won formal recognition from Britain. But few recognize how close that came to happening — and how much pro-Southern sympathy in Britain was built on a lie....