[DiogenesLamp]

Anybody who is interested can read this thread and see a variety of different quotes and sources for each POV and decide for himself what he thinks to be true.

This Map is the key to the entire affair. All you need to know is that the money ending up in New York, Came from the South.

[FLT-bird]

Yep. Against a flood of sources on both sides as well as foreign at the time....against a guy considered to be the pre-eminent historian in the first half of the 20th century in Charles Beard, against a well known expert on historical tax in Charles Adams they have....”but in 1861 the exports for stuff other than cotton (never mind that cotton was 60% of all US exports) wasn’t down that much.....so that therefore proves they were growing lots of tobacco in Vermont and rice in Wisconsin and indigo in Connecticut).”

The desperation to deny reality is palpable.