| TaxJudas.com The Ordeal of The Union By Allan Nevins, 1947. Quoted in: The Causes Of The American Civil War, Edited by Edwin C. Rozwenc, pages 200-217. |
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| Chapter VI.
The Problem Of Synthesis
clearly explains the difficulty
and conflict to achieve
consistent policy in the industrial
North and agricultural states.
Mr. Nevins provides more detail regarding the
terse comments of
Woodrow Wilson, in
Division
and Reunion. It is a seductive temptation to quote extensively from the extraordinary Book, cited above, by Edwin C. Rozwenc. You will deprive yourself, if you are content with my brief summary. I am grinding the axe of endorsing low tariff policy, which avoids Government corruption. The natural magnetism between Sheriff and Bootlegger, was an affliction of Thaddeus Stevens. Fernando Wood gave a speech to encourage Secession from the union! The Confederate States adopted a small, uniform import tariff (Art I. Sec. 8.). “ In the official explanations which one Southern State after another published for its secession, economic grievances are either omitted entirely or given minor position. There were few such supposed grievances which the agricultural states of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota did not share with the South— and they never threatened to secede. Charles A. Beard finds the tap-root of the war in the resistance of the planter interest to Northern demands enlarging the old Hamilton-Webster policy. The South was adamant in standing for ‘no high protective tariffs, no ship subsidies, no national banking and currency system; in short, none of the measures which business enterprise deemed essential to its progress.’ ” The Pacific Railroad was advocated both by the Douglas Democrats and the Republicans; and it is noteworthy that (William) Seward and Douglas were for building both a Northern and a Southern line. In short, the divisive economic issues are easily esaggerated.” Henry J. Raymond was the editor of the New York Times. He wrote an analysis of the impending conflict in January, 1860. He wrote that the competition for political power was the immediate issue of the conflict. Alexander H. Stevens agreed with this opinion. “ The leading object seems to be simply, and wantonly, if you please, to put the institutions of nearly half of the states under the band of public opinion and national condemnation. This, upon general principles, is quite enough of itself to arouse a spirit not only of general indignation, but of revolt on the part of the proscribed.” Mr. Raymond provides an analogy of a political party, organized by the people of the Northern States, dedicated to preventing the extension of slavery “into the common territories, even after the highest judicial tribunal of the land had decided they had no such constitutional power. And suppose that a party so organized should carry a presidential election.” John R. NEAL set the stage Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism. “Competition In Doctrine Nation. Scopes Trial. The First Acadamic Farmer. Club FRED! For Bottom Fishers — Switch and Bait at VINBOB’s Bait Shop ! |