“They (the South) know that it is their import trade that draws from the peoples pockets sixty or seventy millions of dollars per annum, in the shape of duties, to be expended mainly in the North, and in the protection and encouragement of Northern interest. These are the reasons why these people do not wish the South to secede from the union”.
New Orleans Daily Crescent-1861

“The Southern Confederacy will not employ our ships or buy our goods. What is our shipping without it? Literally nothing… it is very clear that the South gains by this process and we lose. No…we must not let the South go”.
Union Democrat Manchester, New Hampshire. 19 February, 1861

A little over 10 years later after the South attempted precisely that, Lincoln, when asked, “Why not let the South go in peace”? replied; “I can’t let them go. Who would pay for the government”? “And, what then will become of my tariff”?
Abraham Lincoln to Virginia Compromise Delegation March 1861

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:04 pm to AU86

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“Why not let the South go in peace”? replied; “I can’t let them go. Who would pay for the government”? “And, what then will become of my tariff”? Abraham Lincoln to Virginia Compromise Delegation March 1861

The utter hypocrisy of the Union cause never ceases to amaze me. They held their virtuous hearts superior to that of the "slaveowner" - forgetting that the Yankee textile mills would be silent without Southern cotton. Yankee homes would be bare without southern timber to make furniture. Yankee bellies would be empty without Southern food crops - all done with significant slave labor, mind you.

Not defending the institution (which was as evil a thing as ever imposed on people by other people, particularly since the Renaissance), but calling out hypocrisy.

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