Trade+and+Merchants

** *__Trade and Merchants__* ** __Trade __  __These facts were written in October of 1861__ [|//http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/10/25.htm//]

 ·  The war between North and South was a war between a protectionist system and a free trade system, and Britain naturally stands on the side of free trade.  ·  In America everyone knew that from 1846 to 1861 a free trade system triumphed.  ·       <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In the closest connection with this foreign policy, whose manifest purpose was conquest of new territory for the spread of slavery and of the slaveholders' rule, stood the //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">reopening of the slave trade, // <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">secretly supported by the Union government. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·     <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #e14905; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #d75504; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Stephen A. Douglas himself declared in the American Senate on August 20, 1859: During the last year more Negroes have been imported from Africa than ever before in any single year, even at the time when the slave trade was still legal. The number of slaves imported in the last year totaled fifteen thousand. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> · <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #7a00ff; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">    <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #7a00ff; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">On August 20, 1859, Stephen A. Douglas declared himself in the American Senate. During the last year more negroes have been imported from Africa than any year before, even at a time when slavery was legal. The number of slaves imported in the last year came to about fifteen thousand! <span style="font-size: 140%; color: #00d8ff; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">__Merchants__ <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·         Regular issue US coinage was hoarded during the Civil War restricting merchant's ability to make small change. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·                 <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> Some merchants had tokens made to give out as change in their stores. If you ordered the least expensive tokens you would receive a combination of two existing dies, usually of a patriotic nature or similar to a US cent, these are called **Patriotic Civil War Token.** <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #36ed02; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 240%; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">·    <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #36ed02; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">During the Civil War, merchants in Louisville continued to carry on a trade with the southern states. When the Union forces put a stop to trade with the south, by checking goods leaving the Louisville station for points southward, the merchants simply sent their goods by wagon to Shepherdsville so they could be loaded on the trains.

<span style="color: #0f08dd; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">**Picture of a trade route used during the Civil War**