States' rights, home rule, America's cherished ideals

From Gnomon Chronicles

Context: "State's Rights? Home Rule? I thought those were America's cherished ideals."

Yes and no.

"the tariff was only a pretext, and disunion and Southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question."

—Andrew Jackson

  • Post @ Bluesky (25 June 2026)