Always left out of these discussions is the fact that these two cities were collecting *MOST* of the money produced by the South.
Same two f***ing cities that are still trying to control the rest of us today.
Or it could be that what they wanted was to run their own affairs without sending 40% of their export revenue to New York, and God only knows how much of the rest to Washington DC. Always left out of these discussions is the fact that these two cities were collecting *MOST* of the money produced by the South. Same two f***ing cities that are still trying to control the rest of us today.
This is exactly what it was about all along. Northern Newspapers were full of editorials saying that if the Southern states became independent they would prosper and the North would lose out financially on a massive scale. The South was generating the vast majority of the exports and paying the vast majority of the taxes. That's to say nothing of the shipping, banking, insurance and import/export business and all the salaries and commissions generated from them.