[Ditto]

"All that you named plus warehousing, cartage, insurance, ship building, dock owners, carpenters, livery renters, accountants, and thousands of hourly workers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Boston, Providence, and New Haven. Northern secession talk was everywhere in March of 1861. Meanwhile, northern governors were all over Lincoln to start a war.....which of course he did."

I'm not sure what you are implying here. Are you saying that the Northern businesses interests didn't want a war because it would hurt their business, but somehow Northern govoners pushed Lincoln into war because on their business interests?

Please explain.

[PeaRidge]

I will be glad to explain.

First, let me ask you a question. When did the new Confederate nation announce its tariff rates?

What were they in comparison to the new Morill tariff bill?