Someone I'm debating in another on-line forum offered the following "Dickens" claims and quote:

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One of the most influential British journals of the day was All the Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens. On September 6, 1861, Dickens gave his account of the causes of the war: It was "a question of political power between North and South," he wrote, mostly because of the Three-Fifths Clause of the Constitution, which inflated the congressional representation of the southern-dominated Democratic Party. This allowed the South to effectively oppose the North’s mercantilist agenda of protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare, and central banking (the economic platform of the Republican Party of the time).

Thanks to the protectionist tariff, Dickens wrote, "Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. . . . The quarrel between the North and South is . . . solely a fiscal quarrel."
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The source of this claim is a libertarian neo-Confederate quoting another libertarian neo-Confederate.... Both of whom have previously been known to be sloppy in their historical research.

I'm wondering if anyone in our company has access to copies of Dickens "All the Year Round" in the 2nd half of 1861...

...and could check if Dickens actually said anything like this.

Why my doubts? Because Chas.Dickens left no doubt to anyone who read "American Notes" that he was absolutely appalled by slavery, and as pro-abolitionist as the the day was long.