What the CONFEDERATE Flag Really Means & Stands For. The Civil War, War Between the States, War of Northern Aggression was actually caused by the tariff on cotton. Slavery may have been an issue with individuals but Slavery was definitely NOT an issue with the Northern MONEY Powers, despite the moral front they like to put on. As far as the real and almost exclusion reason behind the start of the Civil War, War Between the States, War of Northern Aggression, it was the tariff on cotton. The first major tariff on cotton came about in 1828 and was labeled the tariff of abomination by the South, due to how it caused economic hardship in the South. 1832 was the first time that South Carolina and other southern states almost seceded from the Union. In 1837 there was a financial panic that was caused by the northern money interests, because Andrew Jackson fought against Nicolas Biddle and his drive to renew the charter of the Bank of the United States. The Southern, Andrew Jackson, righteously fought and won against the northern money powers and the charter of the Bank of the United States was not renewed. This is another pre-Civil War example of how northern money interests were looking to enslave the country financially, for their own benefit. The cotton tariff was lowered in the 1850's, but other economic hardships were beginning to brew, due to a slowdown in people moving westward, which caused a drop in western land values and their corresponding northern bank held mortgages. Also less traffic on the railroads going west, caused a drop in value of the railroad securities. The northern banks were awaiting a much needed huge shipment of gold (which was shipped on only one vessel because the banks wanted to save money on the shipment costs). The ship was the SS Central America and it sunk in a hurricane with all 0,000 pounds of Gold. That event put the financial panic of 1857 into full gear. During the 1860 U.S. Presidential race, there were four (4) Presidential candidates. Abe Lincoln was backed by the northern money interests. Abraham Lincoln ran on a political platform that he would raise the cotton tariff. The cotton tariff money proceeds almost exclusively benefited the north and it always created financial hardship in the south. Being that there already was a financial panic, an additional increase in the cotton tariff would literally crush the south. South Carolina and other southern states vowed to succeed from the Union if Abe Lincoln were elected. Abe Lincoln won with a minority of the vote because the votes in the Presidential race of 1860 were divided up between four (4) Presidential candidates. South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860. After Southern States began to secede from Union, Abe Lincoln tried to bring those states back in the Union by offering that slavery would be protected as a permanent institution in the South, but the South rejected that proposal, because the real issue was the tariff on cotton. In March 1841, immediately after Abe Lincoln was inaugurated the Morrill Tariff was passed and increased the tariff on cotton. The Morrill Tariff stayed in force for many years after the Civil War and kept the same conditions that the South rebelled against in the first place, in addition to the harsh Reconstruction policies by the North. In more hypocrisy from the North it was the northern Union General Ulysses Grant that kept his slaves during and after the Civil War, because General Grant liked the pay arrangement, which was zero. It was General Robert E. Lee that released slaves that he inherited in 1863 and it was General Robert E. Lee that also released other slaves prior to the Civil War. In NYC there was the biggest riot and draft rebellion against fighting a war against fellow Americans in the South. It was then that the same Abe Lincoln, who had previously attempted to make a deal in the South to have slavery as a permanent institution, declared all slaves Only in the states that seceded as free with the Emancipation Proclamation. But Abe Lincoln did not free one slave in any state he had control of. The Emancipation Proclamation was a recruiting effect, on the part of the north, to make the war effort into a moral crusade. It worked with the common northern people, but the money people could care less about slavery, since it was the money [people and northern ships who initially transported and sold slaves to the south in the first place. The last state to outlaw slavery was Delaware, which was a northern, Union state, which underscores more hypocrisy of the Northern Union.

• published: 23 Aug 2015
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