Why do you keep ignoring what is said in the plainest of language? It's all right here:
"You suppose that numbers constitute the strength of government in this day. I tell you that it is not blood; it is the military chest; it is the almighty dollar. When you have lost your market; when your operatives are turned out; when your capitalists are broken, will you go to direct taxation? Burn down a factory that yields ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five thousand dollars a year to its owner and he goes to the wall. Dismiss the operatives, stop the motion of his machinery, and he is as thoroughly broken as if his factory were burnt; for the time he is bankrupt. These are matters for your consideration. I know that you do not regard us as in earnest. I would save this Union if I could; but it is my deliberate impression that it cannot now be done."
What do you think he's taling about when he says the almighty dollar drives the war? THE TARIFF!
What do you think he's talking about when he asks if they'll fund their government on direct taxation? THE TARIFF THAT WOULD BE USELESS WITHOUT THE SOUTH!
Try opening your eyes for once.
Your mama should wash your mouth out with soap, you nasty tempered little boy.
Reread the paragraph before that. The one where he talks about the south exporting $250 million and importing $250 million - $250 million what I have no idea. Where he talks of the 40% tariff giving the south a treasury of $100 million. He's talking about the southern treasury, you boob. The southern war chest, the southern almight dollar, the southern tariff. Not the Northern one. Nowhere in that speech does he talk about a Northern tariff driving the south away. He is taunting the North, predicting ruin for her when the south has left. As it turns out, he was no better at predicting the future as you are at reading his predictions.
Once the Northern culture began to deteriorate, through several causes, their minds began to shrink. They used the sin of the South (slavery) against them, and have been in the process of trying to make the Blacks the subhumans they accuse Southerners of deeming them. By the way, using someone's sin to promote one's own heinous sin is the vilest thing one can do. They won the war, and now the minds of all Americans have been shrinking ever since. Their advocates on this forum show up the ugliness of those shrunken minds. Go to Jersey, go to St. Paul, go to Baja Jersey (Miami) and you see those small, withered minds, cussing people out in whiny, nasal voices because their boredom with life, due to their tiny, dysfunctional minds, makes them peevish and cranky.
More was at stake in that conflict than my Confederate fathers even realized, I am sure. I doubt they could clearly forsee the degradation caused by the triumph of the putrid Yankee culture.
All we can say is, Deo vindice!