This is correct. The New York/Washington cartel had a good thing going, and they were content to keep the money making system just as it was.
Lincoln was not an abolitionist, as the Confederates charged.
And the latest race obsessed Liberal Lawyer President from Illinois wasn't a Muslim either. He told us so. They didn't believe Lincoln, and we didn't believe Obama.
Lincoln believed that the Constitution gave the Federal government no power to interfere with slavery in states where it already existed.
So how did it give them power to interfere with it in territories which were not states?
The Republicans only opposed the expansion of slavery.
Yes they did, but why did they oppose it? Was it because they had great concern for the forced servitude of slavery, or was it because "slave" states would side with the South and the political power of congress would shift away from the North East coalition?
If newly christened states sided with the South, what would happen to all their protectionist legislation that was making them so much money?
You may not want to contemplate this, but the potential loss of Power in Washington was of more concern to them than was sympathy for slaves.
They had become the "establishment" we talk about now. Those people that jigger the laws of the Nation to support policies which help them grow and maintain their wealth. (Such as Immigration policy for cheap labor nowadays.)
If the Southern alliance gained seats in congress, this threatened their carefully contrived system of protectionism and thereby took money out of Wealthy pockets in the North East.
So how did it give them power to interfere with it in territories which were not states?
Everyone agreed that the Federal government made law for the territories, which were Federal land.
"The Republicans only opposed the expansion of slavery."
Yes they did, but why did they oppose it? Was it because they had great concern for the forced servitude of slavery, or was it because "slave" states would side with the South and the political power of congress would shift away from the North East coalition?
If newly christened states sided with the South, what would happen to all their protectionist legislation that was making them so much money?
There was little chance of territories voting for slavery. Whites had been fleeing the slave states for the free states for years, because they did not want to compete with slave labor. White public opinion was turning against slavery. The economic growth was in the free states.