The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War by H. W. Crocker III

Author:H. W. Crocker, III
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

New England had frequently felt at odds with Southern ambitions—whether the issue was the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, the annexation of Texas, or the Mexican War, all of which were considered in the Southern interest rather than the Northern. There had even been New England secessionist movements. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, some misfit New England Federalists, led by Senator Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts, supported the secession of New England and New York as “a new confederacy” that would be “exempt from the corrupt and corrupting influence and oppression of the aristocratic Democrats of the South.” 1 In 1814, while the War of 1812 was still being fought, delegates from the New England states met at the Hartford Convention, called by the Massachusetts state legislature, to discuss secession from the Southern and Western states. In the 1840s, many Northern abolitionists had similar ideas.

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