They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.Robert Toombs
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