It Wasn't About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War by Samuel W. Mitcham

Author:Samuel W. Mitcham [Mitcham, Samuel W.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Regnery History
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Justin S. Morrill (1810–1898), Congressman (1855–67) and U.S. Senator (1867–98) from Vermont. Courtesy of the Library of Congress

“The Morrill Tariff is a powerful and astonishing example of shortsighted partisans’ greed and its catastrophic consequences,” Leonard Scruggs wrote later. 15 The terms of the Morrill Tariff were so harsh that it virtually forced the rest of the South (Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia) out of the Union. Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri might have left too, had they been allowed to do so. 16 After a forty-year history of economic abuse, the ties that bound the Union together disintegrated altogether. The Southern states which remained in the Union saw that they would be treated unfairly by the North. The Morrill Tariff, the North’s refusal to enforce laws it didn’t like, and open Northern sympathy with terrorists pushed the Southerners over the edge. Many who had been pro-Union before Harper’s Ferry and the Morrill Tariff now favored secession.

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