[mac_truck]

Volunteers weren't enlisting to preserve tariff income or economically oppress the south.

Concurring bump. That town meeting poster speaks volumes about what the Northern people of that time were actually thinking about and responding to.

FWIW, I think this thread has also been useful in establishing that the South never paid more than 25-35% of the tariffs imposed on an annual basis.

[PeaRidge]

"I think this thread has also been useful in establishing that the South never paid more than 25-35% of the tariffs imposed on an annual basis."

And you would be wrong again.