The Real Cause of the U.S. Civil War


Henry C. Carey to Abraham Lincoln, November 1861

Page 2 (Carey document #12)




communicating with each other, freed

from all intervention on the part of

the slave proprietors of Virginia & Carolina.-

As it is, they stand between us & the

southern friends of the Union, who are

being crushed out of existence, and all

for want of a road by means of which

we might give & receive assistance.

British free trade is the

policy of sectionalism. It has broken

up the Union. That we may become once

again, & permanently, the United States, it

is indispensable that we pursue that

course of policy which looks to the develop-

ment of the mineral resources of the

country, North & South, and to the

creation on the land of a market

for all the products of the farm.--

Begging you to excuse this

trespass upon your valuable [unreadable],



















Carey Letter, November, 1861, Page 2