Not just tax them, but also force them to pay the Northern industries to handle all their goods, from shipping, to banking, to insurance, to warehousing, and all handling of the money.
The North was getting 60% of all the revenue produced by slavery in the South. They were making more money from slavery than the plantations were!
And controlling a man's money is the biggest part of controlling a man.
And when has industry not protected its profits no matter the political or social environment? They didn’t continue to produce goods and sell them to support slavery OR anti-slavery, and has little to do with the topic.
But here is what is particularly interesting- I wrote of much in the democrat party history that was ugly and anti-human, yet those who responded singled out one of the least important (yet so telling) points I made.
The entire point of the essay was that the democrat party is traitorous, anti-American, anti- Constitution, leftist, globalist and enemies of the people. With even the slightest bit of luck and a whole lot of prayer, Patriots will be able to vote them out and into history, alongside the Whigs.
Our revolution began in 2008 with the Tea Party and has been building.
In case no one noticed, THIS is OUR revolution, without violence (except from the left), without killing and bloodshed (except from the left) and without sending our children to die (except to leftist foreign proxy wars).