Looting the South Split from Uncivil Action: Was Lincoln Wrong on Secession?

Old_Glory

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You left out the part about how by 1860, Cotton profits had exploded in the South. Slavery was an important component of cotton production at the time. No state in the North grew cotton of any significance.

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Look at all that money that needs to be looted. Surely that had nothing to do with it, it was all about slavery, not money or cotton at all.

An agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit. It is alike our interest, and that of all those to whom we would sell and from whom we would buy, that there should be the fewest practicable restrictions upon the interchange of commodities. There can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the Northeastern States of the American Union. It must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. If, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those States, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth.”

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
February, 1861 Inaugural Speech
https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=88
 
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