When New York, Leery of Losing Business, Leaned Dixie - New York Times

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When New York, Leery of Losing Business, Leaned Dixie New York Times In cotton, the South “possesses a weapon more formidable than all the inventions of modern warfare,” a Southern business journal wrote in May 1859, and without the trade, “the glory of New York, like that of Babylon and Rome, would be numbered with the ...