And that’s also a great link. A critical bit of history few are aware of.
For most of my life, I never doubted the official narrative that the civil war was fought over the moral issue of slavery. I thought Lincoln fought the civil war because he had no choice.
Then several years ago, one of my black friends who is obsessive on issues of race and the civil war, and who was a history major, told me that Lincoln deliberately initiated the civil war with a clever trick. I thought he was kidding, but when I asked for his evidence, he made a pretty good case for his claim.
Then back in 2009 I went to Washington to be part of the Tea Party rally on April 15. Afterwards we went to the Lincoln Memorial and I saw that quote where he said he would not free any slaves if that was what it took to preserve the union. Only later did I discover this quote came from his letter to Horace Greely.
This is when I started doubting what they had told me all my life. If slavery was not the issue for which the civil war was being fought, (and clearly it wasn't based on Lincoln's letter) then why did Lincoln kill 750,000 people to bring the Southern States back into the Union?
What possible reason would justify this carnage if it wasn't the moral issue of slavery? About February of last year, I finally figured out what I believe the war was about.
Money. If you want to get the truth of anything, follow the money. Southern Independence represented a huge financial loss and a huge financial threat to North Eastern economic interests, and most especially to that class of people which came to be known as the "Robber Barons."
And their ideological descendants have been running things from New York and Washington D.C. ever since. They are the enemy we are currently fighting. They are the ones who want deficit spending, unfettered immigration, and open borders. They are wealthy internationalists who now have no allegiance to anything but their own wealth and power.