New Englanders were resentful that they were displaced from leadership of the federal govt; as a group of mere middleclass shopkeepers and merchants, they lacked the statemanship of the natural Southern Aristocracy and its adventurous offspring, from Jefferson to Jackson to Polk. They were also insanely covetous of the wealth of the Southern Planters and apparently felt some kind of weird pseudo-guilt for prominent role that their families had played in the vile triangular slave trade. This ultimately led to a few fanatic abolitionists waging a 30 year propaganda campaign against the South which eventually drove the Union to the breaking point. The blood of over 1 million people is on the hands of these New England ideologues. lewrockwell/2013/07/thomas-j-dilorenzo/who-caused-the-1861-65-bloodbath/
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