[shuckmaster]

I was taught in school that the major bone of contention leading to the war was that ships from France & England were off-loading furniture & goods at ports in the South and then on-loading cotton & other agriculturals with IOU's instead of cash being exchanged.
The Southerners were thus avoiding taxes, tariffs, sending raw materials east instead of north (thus driving up the price yankees had to bid), and at the same time, diminishing the market for northern industrial goods in the South. Northern industrialists resented that & contrived to destroy the South using any & every dirty trick available right up to a fraticidal war.
Keep in mind that lincoln didn't found his party, he was selected by the party to do the dirty work for northeastern yankees who were determined to destroy the South's economy.

It's almost comical to see the lincoln apologists scream & holler at the notion that economy was the cause of the war. There was no other reason!

[CWRWinger]

RE: Post #29

The truth of this matter is getting through. Speaking with a dye-in-the-wool yankee, an educated accomplished professional, a few days ago, I was stunned to hear him say he now believes the 'civil war' was not about slavery. This is from a man who will never wave a Confederate Flag, doesn't visit FR, and never heard of Aw Shucks. He has come to this conclusion through his own study of these events.

[stand watie]

YEP!

as for us of OLD rebel families, we have ALWAYS known the TRUTH about lincoln & damnyankees!

for dixie FREEDOM,sw

[Non-Sequitur]

Your answer makes no sense. How could the southerners avoid tariffs by importing the goods through southern ports? Tariffs were uniform and applied to goods imported regardless of the point of entry. The fact that so little tariff income was collected in southern ports is evidence that your claims are wrong.