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    What we interpret here has a major impact on the American life we have today. We have the Constitution and Charles Pinckney, we have the Revolutionary War and Fort Moultrie and we have the Civil War here at Fort Sumter.

    This will be in conjunction with the 300-percent tax increase demonstrations planned for the Sumter-U.S. 41 (intersection) and Sumter and Price Boulevard by the North Port Citizen's Alliance, ... It will make our demonstration look bigger.

    During the night, we make sure everybody gets through the gates safely. It's amazing how many people come out here at night. You get people coming back from dinner and things at (Lake Sumter) Landing.


    The issue of slavery provoked little moral indignation in General Grant, and in the first days following the attack on Fort Sumter, he seems to have believed that the North shared his indifference to abolition 'In all this I can but see the doom of Slavery. The North do not want, nor will they want, to interfere with the institution. But they will refuse for all time to give it protection unless the South shall return soon to their allegiance, and then too this disturbance will give such an impetus to the production of their staple, cotton, in other parts of the world that they can never recover the controll of the market again for that comodity. This will reduce the value of negroes so much that they will never be worth fighting over again.'


    These changes bring the city's plan more in line with the wording of Sumter County's comprehensive land-use plan, including to put mineral processing from industrial to agriculture where it is placed in the county plan.



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