[BroJoeK]

Worth noticing that the "real reason" for secession is here given as Deep South slavers' desires to reopen international slave trading, something impossible under the current Constitution.

As important, the editorial points out that such importations of slaves would mean "simple pecuniary ruin" to "old Slave States" who currently export their "surplus" slaves to newer states.

This may help explain why Virginia & other Upper South states refused to secede absent something that could be called "injury or oppression".

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thank you for that interesting observation. (We don’t have Like or Retweet here, so the old-fashioned statement of gratitude will have to do.)

[colorado tanker]

Even in 1860 Democrats didn’t understand the law of supply and demand and how markets work.