The secession of seven Southern states came as a shock to the North. The South had been threatening to secede since the Tariff of Abominations of 1828, but the North thought that those threats lacked resolve, because the advantages of remaining in the Union were so great that the North had believed that the South would hold still for being squeezed dry economically and turned into the agricultural colonies of the North.
The secession of the Southern states hit the Northern capitalists heavy blows in their pocketbooks, in two ways. First, the capitalists had expected to squeeze the Southerners with big import-tariffs, to finance the rapid industrialization of the U.S. Second, many of the Northern capitalists had been earning fortunes by factoring the Southern cotton crops; by transporting the cotton in their coasters and green-water ships; and by buying cotton cheaply to process in their New England textile-mills. Now the British stood ready to take over all those chores at competitive prices.
The Northern capitalists decided that this situation was all Lincoln’s fault. Until he was elected, everything had gone fine; but now—following the election—seven Southern states had seceded from the Union, and nobody knew how many more might follow. If Lincoln wanted the continuing support of the capitalists, he would have to bring those Southern states back into the Union, now!
This was a very serious problem for Lincoln, because the Northern capitalists were his sole support-base. He was a Whig, not a Republican. His goal was to implement Henry Clay’s “American System,” to convert the U.S. from a federation of states into a nation-state with an all-powerful central government, which would tax the citizenry (but primarily the Southerners) heavily to speed up the industrialization of the U.S. Chase and Seward—both abolitionists—were the Republicans’ real heroes; if the capitalists now deserted Lincoln, Chase and/or Seward—who both had respectable support-bases of their own—would slice him up like chopped liver the first time he made a wrong move. So he would now have to conquer the South in war and drag it back into the Union to appease the Northern capitalists.
Summary of article in Southern Heritage magazine, 2009.
The secession of the Southern states hit the Northern capitalists heavy blows in their pocketbooks, in two ways. First, the capitalists had expected to squeeze the Southerners with big import-tariffs, to finance the rapid industrialization of the U.S. Second, many of the Northern capitalists had been earning fortunes by factoring the Southern cotton crops; by transporting the cotton in their coasters and green-water ships; and by buying cotton cheaply to process in their New England textile-mills. Now the British stood ready to take over all those chores at competitive prices.The Northern capitalists decided that this situation was all Lincoln's fault. Until he was elected, everything had gone fine; but now-following the election-seven Southern states had seceded from the Union, and nobody knew how many more might follow. If Lincoln wanted the continuing support of the capitalists, he would have to bring those Southern states back into the Union, now!
And this makes perfect sense. That same North Eastern big money Cabal is still running our system today. I guess the civil war made them realize how much power they had, and they haven't stopped using it since.
Today in Modern America, the nation is run by the movers and shakers primarily in New York and Boston, and to a lesser extent Los Angeles, followed by places like San Fransisco and lately the Mafiosos in Chicago.
These are the international business interests who have been tearing apart our societal fabric and making the US more desirable to a "World Government" that doesn't have to put up with pesky stuff like armed Americans with principles.