"The New Orleans Daily Crescent expressed..."
That's like the NYTimes and WashPost expressing an opinion on tax cuts and defense spending.
I find it amusing that the editorial staff talked of the North getting fatted off of the South when the South was fattening off the labor of black slaves.
Oh, but the Southern cause was so noble and about fighting the "tyranny' of the North. The irony is heavy.
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1168
This article argues that tariffs were the primary reason for the breakup of the states. The South was subsidizing the North economically though it had less than half the population of the North.