[DiogenesLamp]

What is this supposed to mean? Does this mean that if a Southern planter sold a shipment of cotton for $100, then the “New Yorkers” were selling it for $160? That sounds suspiciously like retail today. Except the retail price would be $200. The horror! Did not every business reap its just profits along the way, from the farm goods supplier, to the planter, to the factor, to the shipping company, to the broker, to the weaver, to the garment maker? Don’t you like capitalism?

Well if it was all on the up and up, why did they need the protectionist laws then? Don't they believe in capitalism and the free market?

I'll tell you the sort of capitalism the New York/Washington DC corruption swamp believes in, and that's "Crony Capitalism". Influence trading to get laws that favor your corporations. *THAT* is the sort of capitalism the New York Lords believe in.

Don't you see that happening today? Isn't New York and Washington DC fully corrupt today, right now?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Why did Trump need his protectionist laws?

To recap:

The reason for secession was the South’s desire to preserve slavery.

The trigger for secession was the election of Abraham Lincoln, which fed fear of the abolitionist foundation of the Republican Party.

The American Civil War began when units of the South Carolina Militia fired upon a Union fort in Charleston harbor.