"You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue laws, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers. You are not satisfied with the millions of tribute we have been paying you to build up your great cities, your railroads, your canals. You are not satisfied with the millions of tribute we have been paying your on account of the balance of exchange which you hold against us. You are not satisfied that we of the South are almost reduced to the condition of overseers of northern capitalists. You are not satisfied with all this; but you must wage a relentless crusade against our rights and institutions."
- Texas Rep. John H. Reagan, 15 January 1861.