My concern is demonstrating why the North had a very powerful motive to launch a war against the South, and one which had nothing at all to do with concern about the South's peculiar institution.
I think the changes caused by independence would have caused a massive economic boom in the South, and so too thought the various Southern Newspapers of the time, and so too thought various Northern Newspapers of the time.
your opinion is a cabal of New York bankers and Abraham Lincoln decided to drag 31,000,000 people into Civil War to protect tariffs the government collected and insurance and shipping that might have gone elsewhere. Once the decision was made, Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln alone personally orchestrated events to fool the South into firing first. Have I got that correct.
My concern is demonstrating why the North had a very powerful motive to launch a war against the South, and one which had nothing at all to do with concern about the South's peculiar institution. I think the changes caused by independence would have caused a massive economic boom in the South, and so too thought the various Southern Newspapers of the time, and so too thought various Northern Newspapers of the time.
Yep. Its very clear both sides were motivated primarily by the same thing people are always motivated by - MONEY. It certainly wasn't slavery. The North was just fine with that so long as they got to keep profiting so much from it. Even the original 7 seceding states turned down the Corwin Amendment and were looking forward to economic independence. But of course the PC Revisionsts can't bear to admit that despite how overwhelming the evidence is for it.