exercise their power through intermediaries such, as Belmont, the Rockefellers, Morgans, and others. And there is now abundant evidence that the hankers of Europe were already conspiring to destroy the economically strong, but politically fragile, American union.
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES Author Epperson reported that an authorized biography of the Rothschilds mentioned a London meeting where the "International Banking Syndicate" decided to pit the American North against the South in a "divide and conquer" strategy. Such a plan would provide the solvent U.S. federal government with an enemy that would require massive war expenditures and subsequent debt. And in the event of Southern independence, "each state could withdraw from the confederation, re-establish its sovereign nature and set up its own central bank. The Southern states could then have a series of European-controlled banks, the Bank of Georgia, the Bank of South Carolina, etc., and then any two could have a series of wars, such as in Europe for centuries, in the perpetual game of Balance of Power politics. It would be a successful method of insuring that large profits could be made on the loaning of money to the states involved," Epperson explained. Criffin quoted German chancellor Otto von Bismarck as stating, "The division of rhe United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed. . .. Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union." It is historical fact that for some years the Rothschilds had financed major projects in the United States on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Nathan Rothschild, who owned a large Manchester textile plant, bought his cotton from Southern interests and financed the importation of Southern cotton prior to the war. At rhe same time, wrote Rothschild biographer Wilson, "He had made loans to various states of the Union,
