" Southern writers warned that the South’s dependence on northern manufacturing was a serious liability. At conventions across the South, speakers exhorted southerners to develop industry and scientific know-how. De Bow’s Review, founded in New Orleans by James D. B. De Bow, beseeched the South to diversify. “The suicidal indifference on the part of the public should awaken the anxiety of reflecting citizens,” De Bow’s lamented in 1855, “for the whole south is now almost slavishly dependent on the north for the very necessaries of life.” But zealous defenders of plantation culture rejected "

― Roger Lowenstein , Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War