You're the one that brought up economics, numbnuts!
From YOUR post #190: "Learn some real history, including the economics that drove people like Davis to treason before you start tearing people like Lincoln apart. "
Try to keep up.
If those damn Yankees were as evil as you portray,
And if they were the fair minded angels that you and your posse portray, they would have adhered to their Constitution with a speedy and fair trail.
Funny how economically, the North prospered during the war without revenue from the South while the southern economy collapsed without Northern markets to sell to.
Nothing funny about it. Cranking up the war machine always stimulates the economy. WWII got us out of the Great Depression.
On the other hand, the South depended on exporting agricultural products. The yankee naval blockade prevented that.
It was treason and rebellion done for the benefit of a few.
That statement standing on it's own is nothing more that an opinion.
If you have documents that irrefutably state that secession was illegal in 1860, written in 1860 or before, produce them. You'll become an instant celebrity and possibly touted as the greatest research historian of all time.
Talk about numbnuts. First you blame Lincoln for the war, then you bring up economic policies put in place, and repealed, when Lincoln was an unknown rail splitter in Illinois as justification for the war.
You obviously struggle in deep water as all Lost Causers do.
Really? Why wasn't the Southern economy stimulated?
On the other hand, the South depended on exporting agricultural products. The yankee naval blockade prevented that.
Again you show your ignorance. For the first few years of the war, the blocade leaked like a sive and the South could have shipped as much to Europe as their little cotten pick'n hearts desired. Instead, they imposed an embargo on cotton exports thinking that would pressure the British to support them. They overplayed their hand and found out that King Cotton was no so powerful after all.