"So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this; as of many other evils. The quarrell between the North and the South, as it stands, soley a fiscal quarrel"

Charles Dickens
Dec 1861