th symbolized freedom and foreigners came from abroad to join the ranks. Population in the North exploded. Immigrants came to the northern United States, seeking work. All, in turn, made the North an expanding powerhouse. The South, on the other hand, was a completely different story. With the end of exportation of slaves from the "Slave Triangle," due to the 1808 Congressional abolishment of out-of-country slave trading, the South's population became stagnate and became dependent on slave labor to prosper. Slavery gradually evolved into an economically based question of money and power, and ceased to be a theoretical or ideological issue at all. It became an institution that southerners felt bound to protect:
             (Fredrick Douglas) In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright, blue sky, her grand, old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains, but my rapture was soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slaveholding and wrong, when I remember with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are born to the ocean disregarded and forgotten, that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters. I am filled with unutterable loathing. (Civil War)
             Mary Chestnut, a southerner, once said (1860), "We are separated because of our incompatibility of temper. We are divorced, North from South because we hated each other so." (Civil War) As time went on the North and the South became their own separate entities. The South had always wanted to have individual states govern themselves with the idea of State's Rights. The thought of a centralized government was too far-fetched. How can a government that is so far away, express the feelings of the people? In the North, it was different. They wanted a centralized government. They wanted the capital in the North to have contro...