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I agree. Numerous yankee and editors advocated that the South should not be held in a union by force, only to quickly change their mind once they understood that the northern economy would be devastated by the departure of all that money. If the south truly contributed so little, and was such a leech as some opine, why on earth would the yankees want the South to stay? They yankees invaded a sovereign nation for plunder, pure and simple.

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Numerous yankee and editors advocated that the South should not be held in a union by force, only to quickly change their mind once they understood that the northern economy would be devastated by the departure of all that money.

Actually, numerous Northern newspapers advocated that the South should not be held in a union by force, only to quickly change their mind once the south fired on Sumter.