It is a question of geography rather than of politics; yet your Northern men make it a question of politics.

Your Congress is full of rotten tariff legislation, which will make a few of your Northern men rich--and which will bring on this war quite as much as anything the South may do.

Moreover, this tariff disgusts England, very naturally.

Where will England side when the break comes?
And what will be the result when the South, plus England, fights these tariff makers over here?
I have no doubt that you, sir, know the complexion of all these neighborhood families in these matters.

I should be most happy if you could find it possible for me to meet your father and his neighbors, for in truth I am interested in these matters, merely as a student.