Recipes for March

Tropical Trifle

10 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to refrigerate

To keep this sugar-free, make an angel food cake using

Splenda, or look for a sugar-free angel food cake at the grocery store.

1 box sugar-free white chocolate cheesecake instant pudding mix
1 angel food cake, cubed
2 bananas, sliced
6 kiwis, sliced
1 can chunk pineapple in unsweetened syrup
1 (8-ounce) tub sugar-free Cool Whip

1. Prepare pudding according to package directions, and place in the refrigerator to chill at least 30 minutes. Fold in ¾ container of Cool Whip.    Set aside.

2. In trifle bowl , layer cake cubes, pudding and Cool whip mixture and         ¹/³ of the fruit. Repeat layers.                                                                       Garnish with remaining ¼ tub Cool Whip and fruit

 

Slow Cooked Ribs

This serves 2

double the recipe for 4

INGREDIENTS

3/4 cup vinegar

1/2 cup ketchup

2 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 garlic clove, minced

1 teaspoon ground mustard

1 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

2 pounds pork spareribs

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

 

DIRECTIONS Combine the first nine ingredients in a slow cooker.

Cut ribs into serving-size pieces; brown in a skillet in oil. Transfer to slow cooker.

Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours or until tender

SWEET POTATO FLUFF

                                By; Frances Lastinger

1 Can Sweet potatoes

¼ cup sugar

2 tsp oleo

1 egg

½ tsp Vanilla extract

Topping

½ cup coconut

¼ cup oleo

½ cup brown sugar

¼ cup flour

¼ cup canned milk

Mash potatoes, beat until fluffy, stir in the next ingredients,

put into baking dish, mix  rest of ingredients and place on top of potatoes.

Bake 30 minutes at  375

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“To Be or Not To Be” (is that the question?)

   By Robert Lloyd (SCV Chaplain) Gen. David Twiggs Camp

 

It’s an honour to be chaplain for the Gen. Twiggs camp. To be a Christian and then be asked to be an SCV camp’s chaplain, it just doesn’t get any better than that. To think I am now a spiritual leader among a group of Christian men… yeah… all Christian men!

 

(From the back of the room is heard a voice): “But wait just a second ‘Mr’ Chaplain…we ain’t all Christians.” Hmmmn… and yes I realise that and I promise I am going to respect that too. Being chaplain does not mean that I have to be a zealot in the face of another camp member’s beliefs that might be different than mine. With that being a most probable fact, even when it comes to a belief in God or not, I will still be available should any of our loyal members need prayer or a secular discussion of one’s problems.

 

The Confederate States of America, and Dixie in general, has always been known as a Christian nation (or geographical area) and to this day is often referred to as the ‘bible belt.’ But during the War for Southern Independence, one of our greatest leaders was none other than Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest… and an atheist at the time. God grabbed him later on in life but I think he was a worthy atheist for a chaplain like me to have served should I had been there at that time of his non-belief.

 

So no matter what your beliefs in this world are… I will serve you and every member in our camp in compassionate understanding should you call me. You can be, or not be… and that will not be the question.

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The Morrill Tariff Is Passed

High protective tariffs were always the policy of the old Whig Party and had become the policy of the new Republican Party that replaced it. A recession beginning around 1857 gave the cause of protectionism an additional political boost in the Northern industrial state.  Lincoln had been elected on a pledge to increase the economic prosperity of the country and his proposal involved tariffs. Soon after he took office, the Morrill Tariff was passed. The original Morrill Tariff law passed and was signed into law by lame duck President Buchanan the Pennsylvania protectionist, on 2 March 1861, just before the Sumter incident, and was cheered in  parts of the Northeast, and particularly in Pennsylvania for economic protection. Half of the iron of the country was made in Pennsylvania. United States federal tariff revenues had fell disproportionately on the South, which paid for 87% of the total collected.  While the tariff protected Northern industrial interests, it raised the cost of living and commerce in the South substantially. It also reduced the trade value of their agricultural exports to Europe. These combined to place a severe economic hardship on many Southern states. Even more galling was that 80% or more of these tax revenues were expended on Northern public works and industrial subsidies, thus further enriching the North at the expense of the South.  While attempting to protect domestic industry from foreign imports, the unanticipated effect was to reduce the nation's exports and thereby help increase unemployment to the devastating figure of 25%. Lincoln had indicated that he would sign the Morrill Tariff bill should it not be passed before his inauguration on 4 March 1861. (Basler - Collected Works of Lincoln vol. 4, pg. 213).   The act sponsored by Justin S. Morrill and Thaddeus Stevens raised the average tariff from about 15% to 37% with increases to 47% within three years. This was reminiscent and even higher than the  Tariffs of Abomination of 1828 and 1832, which had led to a constitutional crisis and threats of secession. The protectionists pointed out that only two Republicans in both houses had been against the tariff bill and one of these was an Ohioan. Out of 40 Southern Congressmen only one Tennessee Congressman voted for it.  To the South it was viewed as a mortal threat, for Dixie exported three-fourths of all she produced and imported much of her manufactured goods, in spite of the enormous import tariffs that were already in existence.   With Lincoln's Morrill Tariff, the South would be forced to pay even higher prices for imports or find northern replacements, which would then help pay for the northern industrial revolution. Either way, southern wealth would be siphoned off into the pockets of northern industrialists or President Lincoln's federal government.  Francis Lieber wrote his friend Charles Sumner declaring that such enactments fed the very real hatred with other sections felt for New England.  The rates were gradually increased during and after the conflict, bringing in revenue to help pay for the war.

A majority, such as held with Northern interest and their industrial allies can easily exploit a regional or economic minority such as the south unmercifully unless they have strong constitutional guarantees that can be enforced.   That was the push behind the Southern states demand for reaffirmation of States Rights and the declaration of nullification.  The need to limit central government power to counter this natural greed in men was recognized by the founding fathers. They knew the tendencies controlling government to succumb to the temptations of greed, self-interest, and the lust for power. The Constitution built provisions such as the separation of powers and provisions delegating certain functions and powers to the federal government and retaining others at the state level.

 Specifically the 10th Amendment which was largely ignored by all three branches of the Federal Government as 1861 arrived.  The Tariff question and the States Rights question were therefore strongly linked as is the question of secession as an alternative to the South being exploited and turned into a "tax slaves" or a " colony " of the Northern Industrials.    The necessity of financing war, a war against the region that provided most of the taxes to run the Federal Government and to support the New England industrialist caused Lincoln to once again promote a rise in import duties as a source of revenue.  In a message to Congress shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter, he pointed to the reports of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy, as giving the information necessary for action. Treasury Secretary, Salmon P. Chase, reluctantly recommended a rise in import duties as part of his program to finance the war. Congress accordingly passed the Tariff Act of August 5, 1861, which raised the Morrill levels. The Morrill’s tariff legislation of March 2 and August 5, 1861, nearly doubled the rates of import duties that were exacted by the tariff of 1857.

Under the stress of war, high tariffs were easily passed by successive Republican majorities in Congress and approved by Lincoln. The Lincoln's call on July 1 for three hundred thousand additional troops was a foretelling of the increased demands which would be made upon the Treasury. The Pacific Railway Act, authorized Federal land grants and loans to aid construction of a railroad line between the Missouri River and California, and the Agricultural College Act further burdened the Federal Treasury. Ostensibly to meet some of these additional needs, the Tariff Act of July 14, 1862, was passed.  Designed to increase duties to offset the previously enacted internal taxes, the measure aided the home manufacturer primarily in the Northeast again. Customs duties were raised to an average of 37% and the tax free list established by the 1861 legislation was cut nearly in half. These upward changes became the basis for the even higher duties of the 1864 tariff. Western Democrats in Congress protested that the high duties, made still higher by the fact that they had to be paid in gold, laid an unjust burden on Western agriculture for the benefit of Eastern industry. With the South no longer contributing to the Federal Treasury, the West now became the new "colony region" to exploit. Lincoln let this process go on a few years effectively transferring the wealth of the West into the pockets of New England monopolists and capitalists.

The Morrill Tariff should not be confused with the Morrill Act, also known as the Land-Grant College Act. This legislation, named in honor of Justin S. Morrill, was passed on June 10, 1862. This act provided for every participating state to receive 30,000 acres of land for each senator and representative it sent to Congress. The same terms were extended to Southern states, after being readmitted to the union.

 References and Resources:

"The Lost Cause: The Standard Southern History of the War of the Confederates" , by Edmond A Pollard Chapter 4.  "The South Was Right" by James R. Kennedy and Walter D. Kennedy                                Chapter 13. "For Good and Evil", by Charles Adams                                                                             "Abraham Lincoln and the Tariff", by Reinhard H. Luthin

These southwest Florida SCV Camps listed below; meet at these times and places each month. ( In Meeting day order)

Capt.F.A. Hendry# 1284; Sebring..2^nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Southern Gun Shop US 17 South in Sebring

Lt.F.C.M.Boggess # 2150; Everglades City 2^nd Saturday of each month at 7:00 PM at the Seafood Depot Restaurant , SR 29 South in Everglades City

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 Gen.David E. Twiggs # 1462, Wauchula, 4^th Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM  at the Pavilion Building, Pioneer Park, Zolfo Springs,          Corner of US 17 & SR 64

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Maj. Wm M. Footman # 1950, Ft.Myers, 4^th Saturday of each month at 12 noon at the Smoke N Pit  Barbeque US 41 North, N.Ft.Myers               meet at 11 AM to eat first

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Important Notice!!!!!!!!

Please mark your calendars for Saturday APRIL 12th.

The Lt. Francis Calvin Morgan Boggess Camp #2150 will be 

receiving their Camp Charter and hosting a Charter Celebration on that day. Festivities are set to begin in the park in downtown Everglades City at 5:00pm. It is of the utmost importance that we show our new brothers our support and enjoy the day with them. It will be greatly appreciated, if all able to attend would do so. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

email - tmfyock@comcast.net  phone - (239) 772-8689

 T. M. Fyock  

15th Brigade Commander  

Florida Division