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Are you really that dense?

My aren't we getting testy all of a sudden.

That quote is Wigfall's prediction of what will happen to the United States once the south was gone. Know how you can tell? It follows the paragraph where he mentions the 40% tariff that the south could establish. These were predictions, by the way, which were amazing in their inaccuracy. Instead of a crumbling North it was the south that was broken, the south which was bankrupted, the south which turned to protectionist tariffs and confiscatory income tax rates of their own. So again I ask. Where does Wigfall claim that the south was seceding over the tariff? It's a simple question, one which even you should be able to answer.

Instead of a crumbling North it was the south that was broken, the south which was bankrupted, the south which turned to protectionist tariffs and confiscatory income tax rates of their own.

Yeah, still didn't work.

Lee complains that the CSA congress can only sit, chew tobacco and eat peanuts, "while my army starves", while President Lincoln reports, "Our resources are unexhausted, and as we believe, are inexhaustible."

Walt

Where does Wigfall claim that the south was seceding over the tariff?

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.