Through the magic of harvesting money out of Northern trees to pay for things.
You understand my point, you are pretending to be deliberately obtuse. The money came from the South. It was not produced in the North, it was taken from the trade produced by the South.
It did not come from magic money trees in the North. It came from slave labor in the South. *THAT* is why the Northern states and their representatives were so willing to pass the Corwin Amendment.
Washington DC and New York were awash in slave money. The war wasn't about slavery, it was about the cutoff of that slave money, and the economic threat that direct trade between Europe and the South represented to Northeastern monied interests.
“Through the magic of harvesting money out of Northern trees to pay for things.”
So now you’re saying the North produced no economic activity, and were relying on the South to pay for everything?
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.