Historian Forrest Nabors extensively cites (and informed me of) Representative John Farnsworth of Illinois, as well as Senator Timothy Howe of Wisconsin, who argued that the oligarchy in the South had become so strong that they werenβt just trying to be left alone in the lead-up to the Civil Warβ they actually wanted to dominate the North. βSuch, then, I find to be the cause and the purpose of the rebellion,β said Howe. βIt was not to secure toleration for slavery within the seceding States, but to compel the adoption of slavery by the nation.β24 In other words, the Confederacy rose up not simply to preserve Southern oligarchy, but to extend that oligarchy to the rest of the United States.
Hartmann, Thom. The Hidden History of American Oligarchy (pp. 67-69). Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Kindle Edition.
This book, as all Thom Hartmann's books are, is the most efficient and quickest way to understand what is going on in this country.
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