[Sherman Logan]

John Quincy Adams, who dreamed up the Civil War as a way to 'reorganize' [purge] the South and Southern States' politics)."

I have never seen claims that JQA did any such thing. He was of course a leading proponent of the expansion and eventual abolition of slavery.

The quote above, if from him, is certainly true. Unless slavery were to endure forever, the South and its politics would eventually have to be reorganized, since the South and its system was admittedly and proudly based on its peculiar institution.

But I'm unaware of any evidence he wanted this to occur via a war.

[lentulusgracchus]

There could be no possibility of coercion of a State under the Constitution, by the common agreement of all the Framers who wrote, amended, and ratified the Constitution. That was a key point in the discussions of federal power. The federal government was not to be a central, or "centralized", or national government. You will not see the word "national" used about the federal government in any of the founding documents.

Repeat: We were not to have a "national" government.

But Adams's formula, which was 100% about coercion of the States and their People(s), contemplated just such a recasting of the Union, and yes, he did want to use rebellion to justify force. Hence, Yankee politics became all about picking a fight with the South. For the Northern insiders who knew what was going on, that is.

[Sherman Logan]

Sorry, JQA was an opponent of slavery, not a proponent.