Chapter 19 8. The cause of the American Civil War stemmed from the international financial power in Europe

There is no doubt that the division of the United States into two weaker confederations, North and South, had been planned long before the Civil War by the financial powers of Europe.german prime minister bismarck The United States is a very unique country in history. Her rapid rise and extensive influence are unique in human history.The growth of the United States is full of interventions and conspiracies by international forces. Among them, the penetration and subversion of the United States by international financial forces is the most thrilling, but it is the least known. The largest war in American history on its own soil was the Civil War.In this bloody war, which lasted four years, the number of people participating in the war between the North and the South was as high as 3 million, accounting for 10% of the total population. Among them, 600,000 people were killed in battle, countless people were injured, and a large amount of property was destroyed in the war. Today, more than 140 years later, the trauma has not completely healed.

Today, most of the debate about the origin of the Civil War revolves around the moral issue of the war, that is, the legitimacy of the abolition of slavery, just as Hitney said that if there was no slavery, there would be no war.Without the moral condemnation of slavery, there would be no war. In fact, in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the debate on slavery was based on economic interests first and moral issues second.The pillars of the southern economy at that time were the cotton planting industry and slavery. If slavery was abolished, farmers would have to pay wages to the original slaves at the market price of white labor, and the entire industry would suffer losses, and the social and economic structure would inevitably collapse.

If war is a continuation of political struggle, then behind the conflict of political interests is the contest of economic interests.On the surface, this contest of economic interests is reflected in the difference in economic interests between the North and the South, but in essence it is a strategy of dividing and controlling by international financial forces to split the nascent United States of America. German Prime Minister Bismarck made it clear that there is no doubt that the division of the United States into two weaker federations, the North and the South, was decided by the European financial power long before the outbreak of the Civil War.

In fact, the bankers of London, Paris and Frankfurt Axis were behind the American Civil War. In order to provoke the American Civil War, the international bankers carried out a long and meticulous planning.After the American War of Independence, the British textile industry gradually established close business ties with the slave owners in the southern United States. European financiers saw this opportunity and took advantage of the opportunity to secretly develop a network of contacts that could spark conflicts between the North and the South. network.In the South at that time, there were all kinds of agents of British financiers everywhere. They and the local political forces jointly planned the plot to secede from the Union and concocted various news and public opinions.They cleverly used the conflict of economic interests between the North and the South on the issue of slavery to continuously intensify, highlight and detonate this originally unpopular topic, and finally successfully catalyzed the issue of slavery into a sharp conflict between the North and the South.

International bankers were fully prepared to wait for the war to start and then make war windfalls.In the process of instigating wars, their usual way of playing is to hedge their bets. No matter who wins or loses, the huge government debts caused by huge war expenditures are the most delicious meal for bankers. In the autumn of 1859, the famous French banker Solomon.Rothschild (son of James Rothschild) came to America from Paris as a tourist, and he was the general coordinator of all the plans.He traveled north and south in the United States, extensively contacted local political and financial dignitaries, and constantly fed back the collected information to his cousin Nathaniel in London, England.Rothschild.In talks with local people, he publicly stated that he would strongly support the South in terms of finance, and that he would do his best to help the independent South gain recognition from European powers.

The agent of the international bankers in the north is the Jewish banker August E.Belmont.He is an agent for the Rothschild family bank in Frankfurt and an in-law of the family.In 1829, August, who was only fifteen years old, started his career as a banker. He began to work for the Rothschild Bank in Frankfurt, and soon showed outstanding financial talent.In 1832 he was promoted to a bank in Naples to gain experience in international finance.He is fluent in German, English, French and Italian.He was sent to New York in 1837, and because of his generous purchase of government bonds, he soon became a leader in New York's financial circles and was appointed by the president as a financial adviser.On behalf of the Rothschild Bank in England and Frankfurt, he expressed his willingness to support Lincoln in the north financially.

In order to increase military pressure on the North, the British sent 8,000 more troops to Canada at the end of 1861, ready to respond to the Southern Army's attack and threaten the Lincoln government from the northern border.In 1862, the coalition forces of Britain, France, and Spain landed at the port of Mexico and assembled in the southern border area of ​​the United States. If necessary, they would enter the south of the United States and directly fight the north.On October 3, 1863, the French general Jelle added another 30,000 troops and occupied Mexico City. At the beginning of the outbreak of the war, the military offensives in the south were successively successful, and the European powers such as Britain and France were surrounded by powerful enemies, and Lincoln fell into great difficulties.The bankers calculated that President Lincoln's treasury was empty at this time, and the war would be unsustainable without a huge financing war.Since the end of the war with Britain in 1812, the U.S. treasury has been in deficit year after year. Before Lincoln came to power, the U.S. government budget deficit was sold to banks in the form of bonds, and then resold by the banks to Rothschild in England. Deutsche Bank and Barings Bank, the US government needs to pay high interest, and the debt accumulated over the years has made the government difficult.

The bankers proposed a package of financing plans to President Lincoln and set out the conditions. When he heard that the interest demanded by the bankers was as high as 24% to 36%, President Lincoln, who was stunned, immediately pointed at the door. Let the bankers go.This was a ruthless move to completely bankrupt the U.S. government. Lincoln knew that the American people would never be able to repay this astronomical debt.