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That would be tariffs and taxes. The historical record has been sanitized, so it is understandable that most have never heard of the crony-capitalist-corruption of the Whigs. I certainly had not.

I have only recently (last three years) had an interest in Civil War matters, and I did not initially recognize what was going on. It was the discovery of the map showing the tariff collections in the United States, coupled with a chart I had found from the book "Southern Wealth and Northern Profit" that made me realize something didn't make sense.

It took me a year or so to realize it, but what I did realize is that the Northern coalition had rigged congressional laws to funnel all the South's trade income through their hands. They were making 60% of the profits from all Southern production.

It took me a little longer to figure out that the businessmen behind all these profits had the ear of the Corporate Lawyer who became President, and they could get him to act on their interests, which was at that time to keep the Southern money funneling through their pockets.

Slavery they did not care about. They cared that the money flow remained as it was. This explains why Lincoln had no problem accepting the Corwin amendment, even though that greatly contradicts what he was later known for in abolishing slavery.

What explains all this? Crony Capitalism. The sort of which I had never heard or contemplated til the corrupt Obama (The other race obsessed Liberal lawyer from Illinois) got into office and started feathering the nests of all his friends and connections.

My point, to which I have finally gotten, is that I arrived at the "Crony Capitalism" explanation for the Civil war, independently of you, and independently of anyone influencing me in this direction. I realized it just by looking at the trade and tariff data coupled with other things that didn't make sense. (Such as Lincoln supporting the Corwin amendment.)

And this corrupt system is still running Washington DC today, and it explains why all the New York based media are heavily propagandizing for the other side.

Trump is fighting the "Crony Capitalists" and he's interfering with their graft schemes, and this is why they hate him so very much.

>>DiogenesLamp wrote: "I have only recently (last three years) had an interest in Civil War matters, and I did not initially recognize what was going on. It was the discovery of the map showing the tariff collections in the United States, coupled with a chart I had found from the book "Southern Wealth and Northern Profit" that made me realize something didn't make sense."

Thanks for mentioning that book! It is pre-Civil War (which makes it difficult to "scrub,") and it can be freely downloaded here:

Download: "Southern wealth and northern profits"

Mr. Kalamata