The Real Cause of the U.S. Civil War
Henry C. Carey to Abraham Lincoln, November 1861
Page 1 (document #11)
Mr. President--
With this you will receive a
small pamphlet to which I desire to
call your attention because of the bearing of
some parts of it upon the question of the
development of that great central region
of the south which stands now so heartily
by the Union, & which should now be
the great center of southern power.--
Had the policy of 1842 been
maintained, it must be now that center,
and the slave owners of the swamps &
river bottoms would be so utterly power-
less that you might do with them
what you pleased. Had it been main-
tained, the whole of the great tide
region would now be intersected with
roads by means of which the
free people of north & south would be
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