[tylerdurden]

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I still don't buy that. How did what was federal property turn into state property merely because the South seceeded?

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Eminent domain. The Federal US government may have owned that property, but once South Carolina seceded from the union, the Federal US Government has no special status above any other private landowner.

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Of course, eminent domain is an illegitimate way of acquiring property, but the Federal US government didn't have *legitimate* ownership of the property in the first place (see my previous posts on why governments can never legitimately own property), so turnabout seems fair play in this case.