The consolidation of power, the U.S. Civil War.
The American Civil War was a war between the rights of sovereign states, and a nationalized federal government. The power of the people vs. the
consolidation of power. Before the Civil War you would say “these are" the United States. From then on, you would say “this is" the United
States.
The Union was a group of states who agreed that power should be centralized in the form of federal government. The Confederacy was a group of states
who did not wish to relinquish their sovereign rights and power of member states to a centralized government. The South was not some new empire that
had suddenly emerged to upset the status quo and overrun the North. The Confederacy was an alliance of resistance against the aggressive overtures of
the federal system that had begun to write a new status. The southern states simply did not agree with the northern states, that power should be
surrendered to and consolidated in the federal government.
The clearest example of the sort of power we are talking about here is the National Currency Act of 1863 and the National-Bank Act the following year.
(Note the hyphen) This is what the Civil War was all about, economics.
“Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who writes its laws…" -Meyer Armschel Rothschild 1790
I am suspecting that ol' Honest Abe might have been getting his pockets lined working for someone besides the American people. No wonder why he is so
highly revered today in this land of deception and hidden meaning. Throw away all your notions of what you have been taught in school about the Civil
War, and what you have read in textbooks. The propaganda of the victor is also highly revered. Lincoln did not keep the United States from splitting
and falling apart. He forced them to be glued together in Greenbacks.
Ask yourself what the Civil War was really about. Most people today will tell you that it was about freeing the slaves. This, despite the fact that
slavery was an issue in northern states as well. Union forces were not on some moralistic crusade to rescue anyone. They were imperial forces
dispatched to impose a new economic order. Part of this was the Emancipation Proclamation. The rural southern economy was dependant on human labor, in
the form of slavery, on a massive scale. The northern states had made great headway in diminishing this need through the mechanics of industry, and
urban consolidation of their economies. Freeing the slaves was meant to cut the legs off the southern economy. Well, more like shooting a bullet into
each leg so they would bleed through the war, and then rot with gangrene after the war. With a Union victory, the abolition of slavery guaranteed that
a southern confederacy would never have an economic leg to stand on again.
If the war really was about freedom for black slaves, then why did the Civil rights movement happen nearly a whole century later? And look at the
economy of the south. It has just begun to seriously compete with the north once again in the past few decades. And let's not forget the legacy of
all those slave laborers. A line of descendants that still have not been economically assimilated, and continue to live in the worst conditions that
this country can serve up with a welfare check.
More to follow...


And it would answer a question made by another member here. 