Wars usually start with the pocketbook. First consideration of secession
War of 1812, Hartford Convention, New England fishing rights rights etc. -
pocketbook again with S C threatinging to secede when A. Jackson wanted
tariffs, then again in 1860 with pro-tariff groups - all harmful to Southern
economy.
Of course, not being able to take your servants/slaves to new states
meant that new free states would eventually cause the Southern States to be
outnumbered in the Senate, their only hope of control of any legislation.
Tom Foster
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From: "qvarizona" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Pre-War Demography
>I agree with you, John. One example of getting a bit too simplistic, leads
>to the apparent assumption that it was Scottish Highlanders who migrated
>South in large numbers. Not so. It was the Scottish Lowlanders, the same
>folks the English "imported" to Ulster a generation earlier, and who are
>now often referred to as the Scotch-Irish. Oddly, it was the Highlander
>Scot who was more closely related to the Irish --by both culture and
>heritage-- than to the Lowlander. Does
>
> Joanne
>
>
> John G Douglas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Isn't "English North" and "Scottish South" a little simplistic?
>
>>One theory:
>>
>>To add to the collection of REASONS for the war, try this! Some think it
>>was
>>a continuation of battles in Europe which had been ongoing for centuries.
>>The
>>English, with their red, white and blue flag, battled the Scottish
>>Highlanders
>>who had chosen a flag with blue field and white St. Andrew's cross. The
>>English
>>migrated to the North and New England while the Scots migrated to the
>>South
>>and the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains.Soon they were at it again
>>in the great Civil War.
>
> --John
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