[DiogenesLamp]

You played that card the last time. You gave me nothing in return for providing the information for which you asked. If I run across it again, i'll try to remember that you want to see it, but I am not going to go looking it up unless I have a better reason than your attempted shaming of me for not providing it.

Suffice it to say, the North has long run on Protectionism, subsidies, borrowing and spending, cheap labor immigration, and Union Labor anger at "scabs" taking away their jobs for lower wages.

Same then as today, except labor Unions didn't quite exist in that period, but their precursors had the same mindsets as the later labor Unions manifested.

[Bull Snipe]

So what you are saying is that you have absolutely zero proof that would substantiate your claim that the Federal government subsidized Northern railroads over Southern railroads. Got it. That is what I figured would happen.