WOW!! Tanks and I appreciate this information. I also found this article in more detail saying what you stated. Let me know what you think——Thanks for letting me know as I want to know the truth!
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/why-the-war-was-not-about-slavery/
All my life I thought it was, and then about three years ago I got into one of these discussions and after doing research, I learned a lot of what we had been led to believe wasn't actually true.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/why-the-war-was-not-about-slavery/
A bit wordy, but there were things in there that I hadn't seen before. The part about the national bank was quite interesting.
"What about this bill? Don’t be deceived by the terminology. So-called National Banks were to be the property of favoured groups of private capitalists. They were to have as capital interest-bearing government bonds at a 50% discount. The bank notes that they were to issue were to be the national currency. The banks, not the government, had control of this currency. That is, these favoured capitalists had the immense power and profit of controlling the money and credit of the country. Crony capitalism that has been the main feature of the American regime up to this very moment."
This dovetails with other aspects I have learned from other sources. It fits quite well with my existing mental model of our current governing class.
Corporations having powerful influence on the government and using it to further their own interests at the expense of the citizens is the exact problem we are suffering right now.
The media-liars serve corporate interests and they help to elect liberals because liberals controlling government allows the trillions in government spending to work its way through all the right "connected" pockets.
The liberal party is a parasite of the government and the people and derives much of it's revenue from it's control of the government. Joe Biden is a prime example of someone using government power to enrich himself and his family. He takes bribes and obviously so.
He got a prosecutor who was investigating his son in Ukraine fired by threatening to with hold Federal money to be sent to Ukraine.
Our government is corrupt, and that corruption traces all the way back to the early part of the 19th century.
Interesting link, but there is more out there still. There are a lot more quotes from Northern newspapers showing that the primary concern of the North was the continuation of the collection of money and revenue from the South.
And for what it's worth, I'm not from the South and neither is my family. My Grandfather arrived her in the early 1900s and he did not settle in any of the Southern states. My family had nothing to do with the Civil war.