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JP Morgan Railroads & Post-War Exploitation of the South
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 6:35
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JP Morgan Railroads & Post-War Exploitation of the South
If you haven’t been slumbering for the past thirty years, or haven’t been negligent in your reading of American history, America’s behavior toward nations friendly to the US is all too clear. Washington and its corporatists have continued their wars of tyranny, murder, and plunder throughout the world in its greedy pursuit of building its empire, replacing England.
Our troops are not overseas today to protect their homeland from external enemies any more than Union troops were used in 1861 to protect citizens from an invasion from the South. Learn that, and defend America from traitors within. Your personal inadequacy to do so will leave a barren America without its sovereignty and independence as a legacy to your descendents. Shame on you, and you alone.
September 18, 2012
By Michael
Prior to the US conquest of the independent South in 1865, the many navigable rivers of Dixie 
were used as natural highways to transport cotton and other agricultural products to the coast where they could be shipped to foreign markets.
The South, with its rivers and agriculture, had less of a need for railroads than did the North, and therefore, was slow to develop them. Likewise, due to the tremendous profits available from cotton and rice, industry was also slow to start in the South. In the 1840s and 50s large iron works and factories were beginning to appear in Richmond and other areas of the South. However, this development was reversed in the 1860s when a generation of the best and brightest Southerners killed by the invading US military and dozens of Southern cities as well as countless plantations were looted and torched.
The South was transformed from an extremely wealthy society to an utterly ruined backwater under outside military occupation. Before the war, the major economic and political issue of the nineteenth century was the protective tariff (of which Southerners paid two-thirds and most of which was spent on internal improvements in Northern States).
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