Did you know that during the lead-up to the Civil War, New York City was poised to possibly secede? What the hell, NYC!
First South Carolina. Then New York?
(from the New York Times Opinionator blog)
“New-York will be remembered with especial hatred by the South to the end of time,” raged the Richmond Whig on April 22. “Boston we have always known where to find; but this New-York, which has never turned against us till the hour of trial, and is now moving heaven and earth for our destruction.”
The linked article includes a cool drawing of the city courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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