On this very day in 1862 the Federal Government of the United States of America was busily and efficiently waging total war against the State of South Carolina, her citizens and land, as well as the rest of the South. On this exact day, the US Federal Government was killing and wounding Southerners, destroying Southern agriculture, robbing Southern banks, blockading Southern ports, burning Southern courthouses, depots and private homes and in general doing its best to starve the people. In fact, Washington, DC was doing these same things on this very day in 1863 as well. And also in 1864, etc. And it did all of this… to forcibly preserve a political union we had voted to leave. Let us not forget this.