Oh.. So it was those DamnYankee tariffs that were bad evil, ugly and worth going to war over. But the Confederate tariffs were good and dog gone it and pure as snow.
Is that it? Slavery had nothing to do with any of it… right?
The first were purely for SELF INTEREST....to line their own pockets at the expense of Southerners. The second were for self defense. It sucks when a country has to raise taxes to pay for a war of self defense it did not want but that's not at all the same as special interests lobbying for and getting a tax on others that will benefit themselves.
Is that it? Slavery had nothing to do with any of it… right?
Slavery was an issue. It was even an important issue. It was not THE issue. It was not the thing they could not reach a compromise over. That issue was money...tariffs and corporate welfare from the federal government.