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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (440187)	8/8/2003 6:04:09 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

No doubt that economic sectionalism played a part in the bad blood between North and South. I am not prepared to say that slavery was the only cause of the war. The problem is, it is absolutely impossible to divorce slavery and economics, treating them as two separate causes as some are want to do. The fact is, by 1860 the South was slavery and slavery was the South. Not only was slavery the foundation of Southern culture, it was the South's economic blood. You portray the North here as if it had done something "wrong." Not so. The entire use of tarrifs to protect industry was started by the South. Had Southern slave owners not tweaked the Articles of Confederation and even the Constitution in order to gain advantage of Northerners, Northerners would not have been able to use tariffs as they did. For decades the South enjoyed unfair political advantages over the north because it was allowed the ability to count slaves as citizens, this, without even paying taxes on the slaves. Finally, at the Constitutional Convention the debate on this reached a head. It was finally determined that a slave would not count fully as a citizen but only as 3/5ths of a citizen. The North still hated this, but they were too weak to stop it. Everyone is sitting at dinner. I will explain the thing further if you wish when I return. It is facinating. The whole problem of tariffs was caused by a shift in the political paradigm that was caused by Southerners back in 1787. (gotta run - dinner bell- ding...)