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jlf1961 -> RE: God Damn Yankees! (7/14/2008 5:11:29 PM)
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Prior to the Civil War, or the war of Northern Aggression, the economy of the United States was primarily industrial in the north, agricultural in the south.
However, that began to change with the invention of the cotton gin, and the south began to sell more cotton to overseas buyers than northern buyers.
After the British Empire freed their slaves in the 1830's with no financial loss to slave owners, the southern states began to see a way to end slavery and allow the south to build an industrial base.
Using the process of Eminent Domain, the federal government could have bought all the southern slaves and then declared slavery illegal. The planters in the south would not have lost financially, however the large banking interests in the north would have suddenly had no hold on the southern planters, since the loans would have been paid off in full.
The remaining funds would have been used to industrialize the south, thus creating a dual market economy in the southern states, something the north would not have survived.
Thus, every time the suggestion was made in congress, it was yelled down by the northern states which benefited from the inequality in financial solvency.
At the time of the civil war, which began with an act of Northern Aggression, which was the move to reinforce the Garrison at Fort Sumpter, the southern states were clearly nearing financial ruin.
By declaring the act of secession to be an act of sedition, the northern states attempted to justify the civil war. The problem is that there is the constitution does not stop a state from leaving the Republic, one of the basic ideas of a republic is the freedom to dissolve ties with the central government.
Thus, the southern states are illegally occupied, under international law of the 1860's and the present international law.
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