[4CJ]

Document how a region with less than 40% of the entire population, and 30% of thse being slaves, managed to pay 66% of all federal taxes.

The total amount of duty paid during this forty years [1821-1861] on imposts was $1,191,874,443, of which

The South paid,.....................$799,508,378
The North paid,..................... 392,365,065
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       Difference,.....................$407,144,313
Stephen D. Carpenter, "Mr. Lincoln's Testimony", The Logic of History, Madison, WI: S. D. Carpenter, 1864, p. 21.

67.08% to be exact.

[4CJ]

I apologize, the citation should be:

Stephen D. Carpenter, "Comparative Statistics of The United States", The Logic of History, Madison, WI: S. D. Carpenter, 1864, p. 21.