” Northern claim that the war was over slavery.”
What Northern claim? Everyone knows that the Union fought to preserve the Union in 1861. If we made a drinking game out of it, we’d all be plastered it’s been posted so many times.
It fought to Preserve economic control over the Southern money stream.
Lincoln was going to accept a deal to let the original seven states go if Virginia would offer assurances that it would remain in the Union. "A state for a fort is no bad business."
You see, the problem with principles is that they are inviolable. Once you violate them, they can no longer be regarded as a "principle", but are instead, bargaining chips for a deal.
This business of "Preserving the Union" is like that joke about the woman sleeping with a man for a Million bucks.
"We've already determined what sort of girl you are, now we are just haggling over the price. "
As with The Corwin Amendment breaking the principle of Union support for Slavery, so too does the "Virginia deal" break the principle of "Preserving the Union."
But here you are, pushing the propaganda you desperately desire to believe, that both "Slavery" and "Preserving the Union" are not mere bargaining chips used by a cynical manipulator to keep the money flowing to the right people.
When you finally wake the F*** up, I think you will end up doing some serious soul searching, as did I when I realized that most of what I had been told was just a lie.
The establishment Cartel of New York/Washington and it's media weapon still rule us today. Both New York and Washington are attempting to use all their firepower to get this guy that is challenging them.