The war. It was what they experienced. Marshal was a virginian. He was a bit of a backwoods virginian, but he fought in a number of the battles in new jersey. But he became part of something that was a lot bigger than virginia. And he got to know people from many different states, many different backgrounds, and it changed, it changed him and he began to think of the United States as his country. Not virginia. And he became to think of the government as the government of the United States, not the government of virginia. And of course, this gets revisited in the american civil war. This is exactly whats happening. The secession begins. These states are asserting the rights that they retained when they voluntarily became a part of the federal union. The view of lincoln was thats not true. You cant leave. Youre in it, you stay in it. But its primarily over the belief of the Southern States that they were the primary unit. They had given certain things to the federal government, but they
Them with the alcohol. It was so for example, a traveler reported quote, an election in kentucky lasts three days. During that period whiskey and apple toddy flow through our cities and villages like the uphradiies through ancient babylon. A number of runner were busily employed driving voters. Now today there are laws if youre promoting a candidate you have to be a certain distance from the polling place and youre not allowed to be pressing alcohol on potential voters but there were no such laws in the early republic. George washington was one of the most successful politicians of his time in virginia because he understood a practice known as treating which is that a candidate should host a barbecue in the run up to the election, invite all of the voters of the county to come to his barbecue and provide them with free food, these heaping slabs of smokes and salted meat and all the alcohol they could drink. Now, the belief at the time was that a candidate that is so generous is proving
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