[Ditto]

"The handwriting was on the wall for the South," which clearly understood that remaining in the union meant certain tax exploitation for the benefit of the north."

Good grief, these Lost Cause Myths are like the Energize Bunny --- they just keep going and going.

The slave states made out like bandits on the tariff, which was the primary source of federal revenues in the days before the income tax.

Over 75% of tariff revenue was collected in the North while the south accounted for 50% of federal spending. Northern taxpayers subsidized the south, not the other way around.

Roberts should take some time to look at original sources and not just rely on the propaganda turned out by kooks like DiLorenzo and the LouRockwell fanatics. He could start with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens.

The Civil War had one and only one cause --- S-L-A-V-E-R-Y

[Grand Old Partisan]

All eleven Confederate states published declarations of secession, every word of which was a defense of SLAVERY -- not a word about tariffs or states rights or anything else. See www.republicanbasics.com for a history of the GOP from the Republican point of view.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Over 75% of tariff revenue was collected in the North while the south accounted for 50% of federal spending. Northern taxpayers subsidized the south, not the other way around.

More Little Aleck:

"The next evil that my friend complained of, was the Tariff. Well, let us look at that for a moment. About the time I commenced noticing public matters, this question was agitating the country almost as fearfully as the Slave question now is. In 1832, when I was in college, South Carolina was ready to nullify or secede from the Union on this account. And what have we seen? The tariff no longer distracts the public councils. Reason has triumphed. The present tariff was voted for by Massachusetts and South Carolina. The lion and the lamb lay down together-- every man in the Senate and House from Massachusetts and South Carolina, I think, voted for it, as did my honorable friend himself. And if it be true, to use the figure of speech of my honorable friend, that every man in the North, that works in iron and brass and wood, has his muscle strengthened by the protection of the government, that stimulant was given by his vote, and I believe every other Southern man. So we ought not to complain of that... Massachusetts, with unanimity, voted with the South to lessen them, and they were made just as low as Southern men asked them to be, and those are the rates they are now at. If reason and argument, with experience, produced such changes in the sentiments of Massachusetts from 1832 to 1857, on the subject of the tariff, may not like changes be effected there by the same means, reason and argument, and appeals to patriotism on the present vexed question?"

The Georgia secession document even mentions "the free trade environment now prevailing" or words to that effect.

The slave power tried to duck out to protect their property in slaves.

But thanks 18Pilot for starting another thread that blasts everything you ever thought you knew about history.

Walt

[uncbob]

The Civil War had one and only one cause --- S-L-A-V-E-R-Y

NOT TRUE

You might say that the South Seceding had ONE cause ( but of course that is what is being argued here)Slavery

The WAR was fought because Lincoln wanted to Preserve the Union. He could have left the South go its way

[Dataman]

Interesting read, #30. Good work.

[GOPcapitalist]

Over 75% of tariff revenue was collected in the North

The point of revenue collection in itself tells practically nothing about a tariff's economic impact with all things considered. If you want to take up this topic, go educate yourself about trade theory. Otherwise don't shoot your mouth off with uninformed conclusions that lack the necessary information to even begin an analysis.

[bobsatwork]

Thanks for your excellent post. So, the South thought it was about slavery. And the North thought it was about slavery. But "economic professors" know better.

[Leatherneck_MT]

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!!

Man you liberals will do anything to make it you look holier than thou. The Federal Govt was then and is NOW a Tyrant.

Get a Clue

[Jael]

Then why didn't Lincoln free any of the slaves living in the North. No small number.

[Who is John Galt?]

The Civil War had one and only one cause --- S-L-A-V-E-R-Y

That's as idiotic a statement as it was the first time you made it. Half of the Confederacy seceded for reasons other than slavery - something you would know if you read anything other than your 'Blue Avenger' comic books...

;>)