Trade, you say?
What kind of industry is most profitable? The answer will tell us what conjures the energy to start wars.
It’s not the peanut trade, and it’s not popcorn. Could it be textiles? How about semiconductors?
Maybe it’s the oil industry. Well, no—it’s gotta be the methamphetamine market, or even more likely, heroin.
Actually, the most profitable trade—now, then and for all time—is human trafficking. Otherwise known as slavery, in the democrat tradition.
The fight over slavery sparked and fueled the Civil War.
Your last message almost seems like a cry for help.
To reiterate. New York powerful in collusion with Washington DC powerful, managed to gain control of the money stream from Southern slavery production and directed 60% of it into their own pockets.
The South was not only going to disrupt this lucrative status quo, but were going to further threaten the economic interests of the industrial robber barons in the North by allowing competing European products to be marketed throughout the United States, thereby eliminating all the protectionist policies Washington DC had employed to keep the Northern industries profitable.
A Billion dollars or so was at stake, and the powerful men of the North refused to let this happen.
Everything else is smoke. Slavery in the territories is smoke.