Thanks!
That is a great response to DiogenesLamp's claim that "New England Power Brokers" pushed Lincoln into war.
I skewered that non-sequitur the moment I laid eyes on it. Hardly a great response. In fact I would characterize it as "not even a response".
The evidence of "follow the money" has yet to be refuted in any reasonable manner. Indeed, Charles Dickens noted that the War appeared to be over who was going to get the slave money.
…the Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug disguised to conceal its desire for economic control of the United States.…Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as many, many other evils. The quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.
Oh, and lest you think he was some sort of Southern Sympathizer, he was adamantly anti-slavery. He just happened to be willing to tell the truth.