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The North did not go to war to free the slaves or end slavery. The North went to war because it faced economic annihilation and a Southern competitor that controlled the most demanded commodity on earth: cotton. The North's economy was based mostly on manufacturing for the South and shipping Southern cotton around the world. Cotton alone was 60% of U.S. exports in 1860. When the South seceded, the Northern economy began a dramatic collapse, and by war time, there were hundreds of thousands of hungry, unemployed Northerners in the street

Economically ignorant Northern leaders then passed the astronomical Morrill Tariff that threatened to destroy the Northern shipping industry by rerouting trade away from the high-tariff North and into the low-tariff South. The Morrill Tariff was like pumping gasoline into an already raging fire.

Abraham Lincoln was the first sectional president in American history. He was president of the North, and the North was clamoring for war. LINCOLN SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO START THE WAR WITHOUT APPEARING TO BE THE AGGRESSOR, SO HE TOOK IT- THUS, HE STARTED A WAR THAT KILLED 800,000 AND WOUNDED A MILLION.

The idea that the good North was so outraged over slavery that they marched armies into the South to free the slaves is an absurdity of biblical proportions The the economic annihilation of the North was what drove Lincoln to start the war.

The invasion of the Southern States by Lincoln and his party (a minority of the American people) was due to an agenda of economic domination and not to some benevolent concern for slaves.

he idea that the good North was so outraged over slavery that they marched armies into the South to free the slaves is an absurdity of biblical proportions...

Then it fits right in with most of the rest of the stuff in your post.

The south went to war to protect and expand their Peculiar Institution. The north went to war to save the union and because the south had gone to war against them.