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Even the Northern newspapers argued for letting the South go peacefully.

If your going to misrepresent facts, say so.

The only Northern papers arguing for a peaceful separation were pro-South in general and spewed the Democrat party view in particular.

All you secesh are really D.U. trolls, admit it.

I believe it was Garrison the abolitionist that argued NORTHERN SECESSION. He felt the way to get rid of slavery was to let the South alone and the North would secede.

An interesting perspective: pro-secession, anti-slavery.

Trolls from DU? Not hardly - I donate my money to FreeRepublic. Misrepresent the facts?

The South has furnished near three-fourths of the entire exports of the country. Last year she furnished seventy-two percent of the whole ... we have a tariff that protects our manufacturers from thirty to fifty percent, and enables us to consume large quantities of Southern cotton, and to compete in our whole home market with the skilled labor of Europe. This operates to compel the South to pay an indirect bounty to our skilled labor, of millions annually.
Daily Chicago Times, 10 Dec 1860

That either revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the rebel states, or the ports must be closed to importations from abroad ... If neither of these things be done, our revenue laws are substantially repealed; the sources which supply our treasury will be dried up; we shall have no money to carry on the government; the nation will become bankrupt before the next crop of corn is ripe.
New York Evening Post, 12 Mar 1861

Just stating the facts.