The True Difference Between Northerners and Southerners (humor)

Slavery? Tariffs? Centralized governmental powers?

Forget it all. The Covington Journal in early 1861 gives us the true difference between the two regions.


A wag was once heard to say that the difference between the Southern and Northern people is, those in the South never sell anything they can eat, while those in the North never eat anything they can sell.