But the Unionists, then and now, are DEATHLY AFRAID of admitting their reasons for forcing an unwilling population back in.
They go to great lengths to disguise the fact that Southern Independence represented a horrific financial threat to the power bloc of the Washington/Boston power corridor. They prattle on endlessly about slavery in the hopes no one will notice that their own bread was being buttered by the economic conditions created through a captive Southern market.
The War was about money. It was about who would control the European trade, and who would profit most from it. It was also about preventing the capitalization of Southern industries that would then compete directly with their northern counterparts. It was a preventative Trade War with the emphasis on the "War" part.
Total rubbish and nonsense.
DiogenesLamp: "They go to great lengths to disguise the fact that Southern Independence represented a horrific financial threat to the power bloc of the Washington/Boston power corridor."
No disguise because all that is pure fantasy on DiogenesLamp's part.
DiogenesLamp: "They prattle on endlessly about slavery in the hopes no one will notice that their own bread was being buttered by the economic conditions created through a captive Southern market."
Total nonsense.
First, nobody "prattles" about slavery except the Deep South Fire Eater secessionists themselves in their "Reasons for Secession" documents.
Second, Deep South exports were certainly important, but not as important as you pro-Confederates claim -- not important enough to, by themselves, start war.
As Lincoln promised, Civil War could only come if secessionists themselves started it.
Which they did, at Fort Sumter.
DiogenesLamp: "The War was about money.
It was about who would control the European trade, and who would profit most from it."
Only in your own wild fantasies, not in the minds of those who actually fought it.