But The North Is A Manufacturing
Country - A Poor Manufacturing Country As Regards Excellence Of
Manufacture - And Therefore The More Anxious To Foster Its Own
Growth By Protective Laws.
The Morrill tariff is very injurious to
the West, and is odious there.
I might add that its folly has
already been so far recognized even in the North as to make it very
generally odious there also.
So much I have said endeavoring to make it understood how far the
North and West were united in feeling against the South in the
autumn of 1861, and how far there existed between them a diversity
of interests.
CHAPTER IX.
FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI.
From Niagara we went by the Canada Great Western Railway to
Detroit, the big city of Michigan. It is an American institution
that the States should have a commercial capital - or what I call
their big city - as well as a political capital, which may, as a
rule, be called the State's central city. The object in choosing
the political capital is average nearness of approach from the
various confines of the State but commerce submits to no such
Procrustean laws in selecting her capitals and consequently she has
placed Detroit on the borders of Michigan, on the shore of the neck
of water which joins Lake Huron to Lake Erie, through which all the
trade must flow which comes down from Lakes Michigan, Superior, and
Huron on its way to the Eastern States and to Europe.
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