[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "You can tell it is a product of it's era, but the man (New Yorker Thomas Prentice Kettell) puts forth an Interesting way of looking at things."

Worth noting here that Kettell's 1856 book "Southern Wealth and Northern Profits" was not intended to justify secession, but was used by secessionists for that purpose.
It is a foundation document on which many of DiogenesLamp's misunderstandings are based.

[DiogenesLamp]

Worth noting here that Kettell's 1856 book "Southern Wealth and Northern Profits" was not intended to justify secession, but was used by secessionists for that purpose.

Facts don't have "intent." That the facts support the claims by the South do not lessen their truth.

It is a foundation document on which many of DiogenesLamp's misunderstandings are based.

It proves that the bulk of European money was coming from Southern exports, but all the money was being filtered through New York. It showed me something that clearly did not make any sense unless someone had cleverly manipulated conditions to produce such a result.

They had.