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John H. Reagan of Texas, January 1861 - The Congressional Globe
You the North are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under our revenue law, our navigational laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers…. You are not satisfied with the vast tribute we pay you to build up your great cities, your railroads, your canals. You are not satisfied with all this; but you must wage a relentless crusade against our rights and institutions….
We do not intend that you shall reduce us, to such a condition. But it will compel us to manufacture for ourselves, to build up our own commerce, our own great cities, our own railroads and canals; and to use the tribute money we now pay for these things for the support of a government which will be friendly to all our interests, hostile to none of them.
Atlantic Monthly - 1857 - Editorial
The North, distracted by a thousand interests, has always since this century began, at least has always been the creature and the tool of the slave holders…. The whole patronage of the nation's treasury, filled chiefly by northern commerce, has been at their command to help manipulate and mold plastic northern consciousness into practicable shapes.