Or any other state that wanted it.
Right, it was about tariffs. A debate about tariffs made Prston Brooks so angry he invaded the Senate and bat down Charles Sumner, and Congressmen were carrying weapons in the Capitol because the tariff debate was so contentious.
Charles Sumner got his very well deserved beating because he insinuating that Brooks' uncle was having sex with slaves.
At that time in history, it was probably the worst possible insult. During his speech, Sumner's own friends told him to stop before he got himself killed.
This obnoxious loud mouth from Massachusetts, F***ed Around and Found Out. Just like all the other liberals shooting their mouths off, they don't think anything is going to happen to them until it does.
Andrew Jackson would have shot that man to death.
And stop saying "tariffs". This was way bigger than the measly 65 million per year the South was paying into the US Treasury. By getting out from Union laws, they would be getting out from under the forced patronage of Northern Shipping, Warehousing, Banking, insurance, and compelled purchasing of Northern industrial products. The South stood to gain nearly 700 million per year in extra income, while the North was going to lose that income.
You think the North cared about slaves? Or "Union"? No! They wanted that f***ing MONEY!!!!!
They started a war with the South to KEEP THAT MONEY FLOWING INTO THEIR POCKETS!!!!
This is why Republicans had no troubles voting for permanent slavery, because they thought that would keep the South in the Union, and keep them paying all that money into the North.
Nonsense, the south wanted to keep their slaves and the only way to do that was ensure there were enough slave states to block an eventual Constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. That was the reason they wantd to annex Cuba, expand slavery to Kansas, and maybe annex more of Mexico. The free states were against expanding slavery. That’s what the fight was about, slavery. All the other arguments: tariffs, the Pacific railroad, homesteading, etc. were offshoots of the slavery fight. Yes, Sumner did insult Brooks’ rlative but as I said the anger and rancor was from the slavery controversy, not about money.