[WhiskeyPapa]

Through the use of high domestic tariffs, the South was no more than a Northern colony.

The south controlled both the government and the Congress for decades prior to the ACW. Tariffs were exactly what they wanted them to be.

The election of Abraham Lincoln showed that they couldn't control the government to the extent they had previously, so they tried to bolt.

Walt

[rightofrush]

Your perennial attacks on the antibellum south never fail to disapoint.