Yes, sir. Calhoun said it well in his speech opposing the Force Bill in the Senate in February of 1833. "Whatever interest obtains possession of the Government, will, from the nature of things, be in favor of the powers, and against the limitations imposed by the constitution, and will resort to every device that can be imagined to remove those restraints.”

In 1832 Daniel Webster, the North’s great nationalist, said “The President has no authority to blockade Charleston.” In April 1861 Lincoln blockaded Charleston with Congress out of session. Webster had been dead nine years.

The 1866 great fire of Portland spread throughout the city of Portland, Maine, on July 4, 1866. Some Virginia papers reported the event claiming Portlanders rejoiced at the burning of Richmond 15 months earlier. The Abingdon Virginian, Fri, Jul 20, 1866

My mutuals are tough. I probably did cave too early and without enough research on the Richmond photograph. I still don't know what the truth is.

"A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union." —Ulysses S. Grant, March 4, 1869, 1st Inaugural Address President Grant says the debt was contracted to secure the Union, not to end slavery. On his deathbed he would say it was about slavery.

It appears that the Richmond photo may not have been a good choice. Some of the destruction there was undertaken by Confederates to keep supplies out of Union hands. Here is Atlanta then. There is also much of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and The Shenandoah Valley.

"John Marshall is one of the most important men in American history. No man did more to codify the nationalist interpretation of the Constitution than Marshall." —Brion McClanahan, p. 706 You get the "Papers" and outstanding Editor's Introductions by Dr. McClanahan.

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” —George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism, 1945 Richmond, Virginia 1865

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." —Thomas Sowell, November 30, 2005, Real Clear Politics Oh, the irony. To think @DennisPrager has anything to say about morality disgusts me.