“In one single blow our foreign commerce must be reduced to less than one-half what it now is. Our coastwise trade would pass into other hands. One-half of our shipping would lie idle at our wharves. We should lose our trade with the South, with all of its immense profits. Our manufactories would be in utter ruins. Let the South adopt the free-trade system or that of a tariff for revenue and these results would likely follow.”“In the enforcement of the revenue laws the forts [like Fort Sumter] are of primary importance. Their guns cover just so much ground as is necessary to enable the United States to enforce their laws. Those forts the United States must maintain. It is not a question of coercing South Carolina, but enforcing the revenue laws. The practical point, either way, is whether the revenue laws of the United States shall or shall not be enforced at those three Ports, Charleston, Beaufort and Georgetown, or whether they shall or shall not be made free ports, open to the commerce of the world, with no other restriction upon it than South Carolina shall see proper to impose. Forts are to be used to enforce the revenue laws…not to conquer a State.”
The Union launched the war to protect their money stream. they used "Slavery" as a propaganda tool to recruit and then later to justify the evil thing that they had done.
We have been lied to all these years. The deeper I dig, the more lies I find.
The Civil War was a war over *MONEY*, not Slavery. The Union was perfectly content to allow slavery to continue so long as they were making their cut of money off of it.
:) Yer one of my friends. :)