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How did the Northern States get tax burdens from the War for Independence shifted? They went to Congress and whined about how paying those taxes would bankrupt the Northern States. So the Congress went and shifted a lot of the tax burden on the South "to help out" the Northern States. This occured in the late 1700's or early 1800's. Then Congress later enacted a "protective tariff" which enriched the North at the expense of other sections vis a vis the South.

Specifically?

As for your other viewpoint about the South starting the war, I offer this as proof of Lincoln's perfidity and badgering of the South into war.

So the gist of your arguement is that there was a war because the southern leadership was too stupid to see through Lincoln's plot? Doesn't say much about them, does it?

So if you were to have asked a Confederate Soldier why they seceeded, he would have told you these reasons...

If you asked the southern leadership why they sent those soldiers into war they would have told you this:

"But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other -- though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."

Sorry but your tired assed old arguments won't wash here. I know who the real culprits were - and they weren't from the Southern States!

According to your lame-ass old southron myths.

Says you. Same old yadda-yadda! Nothing new to see here folks, time to move along.