[Mudboy Slim]

"The shift from a pro-peace to a pro-war position by the New York press and key business interests coincided exactly with their realization that the Confederacy’s low tariffs would draw trade away from the North, especially in view of the far higher Northern tariff just instituted. There is an important point here. It did not automatically follow that secession as such had to mean war. But peace foretold the end of continental mercantilism, tariffs, internal improvements, and railroad subsidies – a program that meant more than life to a powerful Northern political coalition. That coalition, of which Lincoln was the head, wanted war for a complex of material, political, and ideological reasons."

Interesting thread, shuckmaster...whattaya think, sw?!

FReegards...MUD

[Non-Sequitur]

Interesting? No. Bullsh*t? More like it. The change in editorial policy of the New York newspapers coincided exactly with the firing on Fort Sumter.

[stand watie]

i think that there is only one simple answer(only the simple INSIST on simplistic answers!) about the cause of secession. just ONE.

the cause of secession was the LUST FOR FREEDOM, from the hateful, arrogant, ignorant damnyankees. that over-riding REASON still is valid.

for dixie,sw