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<blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 5790939" data-attributes="member: 65823">“The grievances which to the South seemed so intolerable that civil war itself was a lighter evil, were two (one was actual, the other was, in the main, hypothetical). They were suffering, and had long suffered, from the effects of the various Northern Tariffs; and they believed from past experience that as soon as the North had the power in its hands they should be exposed to the same perilous dealing with their slaves . . .But it is clear that the first reason is the one on which the South mainly acted. The proof is very simple. Secession was an absolute and immediate remedy for the free-trade grievance. ..The protective system had been won as a triumph by the North . . .The South felt the double sting of humiliation and of loss. They felt that they were wronged. And it did not seem likely that the evil would abate of itself in the course of time; the wants of the Treasury were growing, and as those wants grew, the tariff was likely to rise.”The Quarterly Review, London, 1861.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownFlush, post: 5790939, member: 65823"] “The grievances which to the South seemed so intolerable that civil war itself was a lighter evil, were two (one was actual, the other was, in the main, hypothetical). They were suffering, and had long suffered, from the effects of the various Northern Tariffs; and they believed from past experience that as soon as the North had the power in its hands they should be exposed to the same perilous dealing with their slaves . . . But it is clear that the first reason is the one on which the South mainly acted. The proof is very simple. Secession was an absolute and immediate remedy for the free-trade grievance. ..The protective system had been won as a triumph by the North . . . The South felt the double sting of humiliation and of loss. They felt that they were wronged. And it did not seem likely that the evil would abate of itself in the course of time; the wants of the Treasury were growing, and as those wants grew, the tariff was likely to rise.” The Quarterly Review, London, 1861. [/QUOTE]

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