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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2669270, member: 72790&quot;]Here is an interesting, &#039;what if&#039; and R.B. Taney. In early 1861, before the fighting broke out there were all kinds of legal and political maneuverings to keep the Union intact. There was talk of submitting to the Supreme Court the matter of legal secession, that is might a state legally secede from the Union. Events moved too fast for the court to weigh in on the matter but given Taney&#039;s position on federal versus state power and the wording of the Tenth Amendment a Taney dominated court might have rendered the opinion that secession was lawful with the result that all that Confederate currency being collected today might be as valuable as the US currency from that time period. By the way I have a Charleston, SC bank note dated 4/13/1861. I have always wondered if the president and cashier who signed that note could hear the booming, feel the tremors of Southern artillery as it unloaded on Sumter out in the harbor that very day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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