Like I told you, I’m posting these articles to get feedback, and yours is appreciated.
It’s a learning process for me. I believe secession in 1860 was legal and constitutional . The rest of this is interesting but peripheral.
But you obviously believe everything in them to be accurate or else I assume you wouldn't be posting them. Did it not occur to you to question a single claim that they made? The South had less than a quarter of the free population of the U.S. yet this author claims that they paid something like three quarters of the tariff. Aren't you curious as to what the South was importing in such vast quantities? The claim was made that the North was taking all that tariff money that they raped from the South and was spending it on canals and railroads. Yet I cannot find a single canal that the federal government funded or a single railroad. Don't you find that curious? Or do you accept everything at face value?