To: Hawkmoon who wrote (88719 ) 6/10/2012 12:47:40 AM From: longnshort Read Replies (1) | Respond to and those revenues went up for the north because of the tariff of 1828. which force the south to pay more for northern goods which they had been getting cheaper from the British. So southern money went north, ad valorem tariff.William Stanley Jevons denounced it as a "retrograde" law. The well known novelist Charles Dickens used his magazine, All the Year Round , to attack the new tariff. On December 28, 1861 Dickens published a lengthy article, believed to be written by Henry Morley , [15] which blamed the American Civil War on the Morrill Tariff: If it be not slavery, where lies the partition of the interests that has led at last to actual separation of the Southern from the Northern States? …Every year, for some years back, this or that Southern state had declared that it would submit to this extortion only while it had not the strength for resistance. With the election of Lincoln and an exclusive Northern party taking over the federal government, the time for withdrawal had arrived … The conflict is between semi-independent communities [in which] every feeling and interest [in the South] calls for political partition, and every pocket interest [in the North] calls for union … So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this, as of many other evils... [T]he quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.
