The Myth of the Righteous Cause

“The Myth of the Righteous Cause” states that the so-called “Civil War” (which it was not), was “about” slavery (which it was not), and the “righteous” North went to war against the “evil” South to free the slaves (which it did not.)


“Civil Wars” are waged among factions struggling for control of the government in question. The Southern States did not want to control the United States government, they only wanted to withdraw from it and form their own – sanctified by the Declaration of Independence.


The war was not “about” slavery. Abraham Lincoln said so himself in his First Inaugural Address. He said he only wanted to “save the Union and collect the revenue” – that is, save the Union for the financial benefit of the North at the expense of the South. Cotton was “king” in those days, but with the South’s “Cotton Kingdom” out of the Union and free trading with Europe, and no longer paying extortionate tariffs to support the North’s crony capitalists, the North’s “Mercantile Kingdom” would collapse. Lincoln didn’t go to war to free any slaves. Lincoln went to war to drive the South back into the Union at the point of the bayonet. That is what the war was “about.” Slavery was just the smelly “red herring” covering his tracks in the history books.


Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was strictly a desperate war measure issued to keep Europe from recognizing the Confederacy when she was about to win her independence. It only claimed to free the slaves behind Confederate lines. Otherwise, it plainly stated that slavery was just fine with “The Great Emancipator” as long as one were loyal to his government, proven six months later when he admitted West Virginia, a “slave State,” into the Union.


So the North didn’t “go to war to free the slaves,” for she didn’t even free her own until after it was over. But even then she merely replaced inefficient chattel slavery with the more profitable “debt slavery,” and merely replaced “Ole Marster” with a Wall Street banker.


​Follow the dollar and know the truth.