 and liberty-loving Union, only for the sake of secession. Their ambitious aim was to become the bosses of their new slave-holding empire. Toward that end, they, through their newspapers, brainwashed most, but not all, of Southern Normiedom to hate the Union on the grounds that these slave-holding states were somehow being oppressed. Supporting this nefarious effort, which originated with Bankster tool John C. Calhoun,