Kingdom. The South had so much invested in farming cash crops and in agriculture and so little invested in factories and mass-producing goods an extreme shift such as emancipating all of the slaves would have been too much of a risk. That was all people knew and the economy could collapse. People would lose their livelihood. “…the Negro race, from their temperament and capacity, are peculiarly suited to the situation which they occupy, and not less happy in it than any corresponding class to be found in the world; prove incontestably that no scheme of emancipation could be carried into effect without the most intolerable mischiefs and calamities to both master and slave, or without probably throwing a large portion of the earth’s surface out of the pale of civilization…”(Harper 341, The Annals of America) There were a few alternatives such as hiring workers, but for most southerners this was out of the question. If the large plantation owners were forced to pay workers to do the work of a hundred or more slaves the profit loss would be huge. The workers would demand better hours than the slaves got and could quit if they did not want the job anymore. The small farmers who owned ten or less slaves would be forced to do all the work themselves because they could not afford paid labor. Even the churches and clergymen in the South supported slavery. On May 16, 1861, the Presbyterian Assembly met in Philadelphia. Only a few southern presbyteries were in attendance. When a Northern clergyman called for an oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, the Southern clergymen defected.There were a few Northerners who agreed with the South these were the poorest whites and the immigrants. They did not want the slaves emancipated because they saw them as competition for jobs.Many bonds were broken between the North and the South. They both had their own ways of living and own ideas of what was right and...
