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To: Non-Sequitur

I was trying to point out that the real money was being made in the north. It was the textile manufacturers who were making the millions. It was not solely a slavery and agriculture economy, it was a manufacturing and a banking economy as well. And the northern states were bleeding the southern states.

When the war between the states began the factory owners were dependent on cotton from the south. They were very much against the war. As they sat in the Somerset Club overlooking the Boston Common they had the servants draw the draperies so they would not have to look at the Union Soldiers parading on the common.
The people up north weren't all good and the people down south weren't all bad.


138 posted on 02/11/2007 7:05:41 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
I was trying to point out that the real money was being made in the north. It was the textile manufacturers who were making the millions.

What about the millions made by cotton growers?

And the northern states were bleeding the southern states.

How so?

146 posted on 02/12/2007 3:58:27 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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