When Haley Dodged the Slavery Question, She Put Her Coalition at Risk

 

I have long needed an alternative uderstanding of the lead up to the USA civil war.  It was really too soon to politically deal with the slavery issues, not least exampled by Abe's own dance around the issue until and even past Gettysburg.

Quite plainly the southern Elite wanted their own country and moved immediately that the electrate provided a pretext by electing Abe who actually opposed slavery.

This was obviously, a long held policy taste noised about and thus a natural conspiracy driven by treasonous whispers.  just knowing that resets our understanding of the times.

When Haley Dodged the Slavery Question, She Put Her Coalition at Risk

Nikki Haley’s avoidance of mentioning slavery as a cause of the conflict, which she walked back on Thursday, threatened to dent her crossover appeal to independents and moderate Democrats.

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The former Governess of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, was recently disciplined by the media for carelessly citing "government overreach" as a cause of the US Civil War -- but not mentioning slavery. Like a good little Republican't, she adjusted her position the day after -- telling a local New Hampshire interrogator: “Of course the Civil War was about slavery.” Typical politician. When folks from Dixieland are watching on TV, blame the North for "overreach." When further pressed on the matter in New England, blame the South for slavery. Ms. Haley is of no use and of no concern to us because no one and nothing can stop Trump at this point. But her waffling on the subject does offer us a good "teachable moment" ™ for unraveling the false pretexts claimed on both sides of that tragic conflict, and establishing the true motives of the leaders (not necessarily the respective populations) of the opposing sides. Neither "overreach" nor "slavery" triggered the Civil War -- at least not primarily.

Lionel de Rothschild

A deeper dive into some of the key players and a certain secret society at work at the time leads us to conclude that the "usual suspects" in London were the unseen architects behind the fraternal bloodbath.

August Belmont (born Aaron Schönberg) was a known agent of the Rothschilds. As Chairman of the Democrat Party, he opposed Lincoln and backed a negotiated secession with the Confederacy (whose true president was the cunning Jew Judah Benjamin). Belmont was also related by marriage to Senator John Slidell of Louisiana -- who got Belmont (a wealthy New York City financier for whom the Belmont Stakes horse race is named) his start in politics.

Dating back to the hateful rivalry between Andrew Jackson and South Carolina's James C. Calhoun during the 1830s, Haley's home state of South Carolina (she was actually born to Indian immigrants) had been the hotbed of the secessionist conspiracy. The movement finally culminated in the US Civil War just three decades later -- with the first shot being fired at the Union outpost of Fort Sumter in, of course, South Carolina. The artful intriguer Calhoun, who served at varying times as US Senator and Vice President, had the backing of the Central Banker Cabal (which Jackson was also at war with). To advance his secessionist agenda, Calhoun seized upon the phony pretext of protective tariffs to incite a South Carolina rebellion against the Union. Jackson then combined the stick of a threatened military action with the carrot of a reduced compromise tariff to end the crisis and compel that state to collect tariffs on goods imported from Britain, mainly. After the crisis had passed, Jackson (a southerner and a slave owner himself) wrote: "The tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question." Jackson was right. Calhoun's treason was never about "tariffs" -- and indeed, the Calhounists of the coming decades would restart the agitation under the pretext of their slave-holding "rights" being threatened. In this respect, the secessionists had some indispensable unwitting (or perhaps, knowing?) accomplices in the form of the North's radical abolitionists. Regarded as fanatics and even traitors by most anti-slavery folks, these odious and sanctimonious New Englanders demanded immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery by any means necessary, including the inciting of slave rebellions. Some even called for the North to secede from the South! Their fiery rhetoric and writings served as the perfect Straw Man foil for their Calhounist counterparts to seize upon and frighten southern normies with propaganda about planned mass slave revolts and genocide of Whites. In reality, Calhoun and much of the elite planter class wanted secession for the sake of secession. The rebel ringleaders may very well have been taking orders from the Cabal's "free trade" agents in Rothschild's London, who wanted to split the emerging and powerful young nation and impose a Central Bank upon each of the new countries. At the end of his presidency, Jackson said that he regretted the fact that that he did not hang Calhoun. Jackson would not be the only southern-born president to wish death upon the secessionists. During a stormy meeting held in February, 1850 (5 years after Calhoun had passed away), President Zachary Taylor (who, like Jackson, had been a military general and was still a slave owner) openly threatened a group of southern Calhounists with hanging. In July of that same year, Taylor suddenly died of "stomach disease" -- with symptoms consistent with poisoning. He had been president for just 15 months. * Editor's Note: Lincoln's youngest son would also die of a sudden disease said to have been caused by the drinking water in the White House.

1 & 2. The true origins of the 1860s US Civil War can be traced to the hateful 1830s rivalry between southerners Jackson (TN) and Calhoun (SC). // 3. Period cartoon depicts Calhoun climbing the steps of “nullification” – South Carolina Ordinance” --“Treason” –“Civil War” –and “Deception” as he reaches for the crown of a new country. // 4. Read Andrew the Great, by yours truly. * Confederate President Jefferson Davis was a young devotee of Calhoun.

1837 Advertisement urging the peaceable breakup of a coming abolitionist meeting in New York.

Forceful abolitionists also incited tensions between North and South. Saner pro-Unionists in the North, condemned the radical "do it now" abolitionists for contributing to disunity. Might some higher hand seeking to split the United States have been steering the radical abolitionists as well as the radical secessionists as part of a divide & conquer scheme?

Like Andrew Jackson, the reputation of the southern war-hero-turned-president, Zachary Taylor (KY), could not be propagandized and distorted into that of a tyrannical Yankee disrespecting the South -- as the Planter Elite would do to Abe Lincoln 10 years later.

Fast forward to 1860. No sooner had Abraham Lincoln of Illinois won the presidential election than southern states, even before his inauguration, began seceding -- South Carolina, of course, being the very first, followed by 10 more in the ensuing weeks and months. Lincoln never once threatened to abolish slavery in states where the institution had already existed. And despite having already been targeted by a foiled pre-inauguration assassination plot led by a pro-Confederacy European agent, Lincoln's inauguration speech of March 4, 1861 was very conciliatory. Through his allies in Congress, Lincoln -- in an 11th hour effort to save the Union -- supported a proposed Constitutional Amendment to protect slavery. Nonetheless, all of the Declarations of the Causes for Secession issued by the rebellious States which published them -- or openly stated by resigning Southern Senators -- specifically cited the defense, and even the expansion, of the insitution of slavery or "states' rights" (to preserve slavery), as the cause of the divorce: (South Carolina: here) -- (Georgia: here) -- (Alabama: here) -- (Louisiana: here) (Mississippi: here) -- (Texas: here) -- (Virginia: here) -- (Florida: here) This time around, there was not a single word about "tariffs." Andrew Jackson's prophetic warning had come to pass. Once again: "The tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question." Ah --- there's no history like original-source history! As for the Union, aka "The North" -- Lincoln too would have to play the game of phony pretext. As the war unfolded, anti-war operatives of Belmont's Northern Democrat Party organized the New York City draft riots while demanding that the Union allow the South to secede. Lincoln then partially rebranded the war to "save the Union" to the war to "free the slaves" as well. The addition of this moral element to the Northern cause added propaganda value. So, in a nutshell, the competing fake pretexts and true motives related to the US Civil War were as follows:

The Northern Unionists Pretext: (at least partially): Free the slaves Real Motive: Preserve the United States

The Confederate Ruling Planter Elite

Pretext: Preserve slavery and resist tyranny Real Motive: Establish & expand a slave-holding empire of their own

With all due respect to our southern brothers-in-truth here -- yes, the "War of Northern Aggression" -- in spite of what the ruling class southern secessionists claimed, in writing, at the time -- wasn't totally about slavery. However, in a free nation with no federal income taxes, no federal sales taxes, no payroll taxes, no estate taxes, no central bank, a gold-backed currency, no 3-letter agencies, no welfare state, no gun laws, no federal regulations, no federal meddling in education, commerce, agriculture, labor, retirement or healthcare, no coercive federal grants to states, no foreign military presence, no loss of sovereignty to international bodies, no restrictions on speech, total religious liberty and a truly minimalistic central government -- the war was not about "states' rights" or "liberty" or "overreach" either. Heck! Who among us wouldn't love to be able to live in a country that free and that decentralized today! Perhaps that's why 80,000 - 100,000 Dixie good ol' boys voluntarily took up arms to defend the Union -- not the Confederacy. The story of the bitter southern Civil War within the Civil War (on both sides) is long forgotten -- so y'all don't be so sure that all of your ancestral kin were necessarily pro-Confederacy.

Southern-born generals who fought for the Union. L-R: Winfield Scott, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, George Henry Thomas, John C. Fremont, Andrew Johnson (future president),

1. Currier and Ives (North) editorial cartoon depicting the forced conscription of Southern citizens -- many of whom referred to the rebellion as "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight." // 2. The Union also relied on conscription -- especially of new Irish immigrants.