The War of North Rebellion: A different spin

» FortBrooke1824 - A different spin

While most of us have heard the term War of Northern Aggression I have decided to coin a new term at least for me LOL as the War of Northern Rebellion.
I realize I'm putting myself out on a limb here for my facts may not be correct however here goes nothing.
It seems to me that the South ever since the days of George Washington held the power in the United States government up until the days of the Civil War.
Most if not all of the Presidents who held two terms prior to the War were former slave holders. The majority of the members of the Supreme Court until that time were from the South. The chairman of the Ways and Means committee and the Speaker of the House most of the time were from the South.
But I started to think why? When you think about it only one in ten people in the South even had slaves yet the same one out of ten constantly held important positions in government Congressmen,Senators, Governors in both state and federal positions.
Then I started to think back to the 3/5 rule which was made basically so the South would enter the Union to start with. In my opinion the 3/5 rule gave the South the power they enjoyed up until the Civil War. Of course women and children could not vote back then. You could take the position that the average male was voting for his entire family during an election. However if a slave owner had 100 slaves then the way I understand it he had 60 votes and 61 includeing himself. And if he had 300 slaves then he had 181 total votes, against that one say up in Illinois.
This type of power would help me to understand why such things as the Fugitive Slave law and future territories were needed by these people of enmorous power.
It would also seem that the South was most fearful of a slave rebellion. ie Nat Turners or John Browns. It would also explain why some members of our government prior to the War wanted to free slaves in the District of Columbia. The states held that decision on their own but DC was not a state but rather the federal government. So strong was the fear that if slavery were out lawed in DC that soon parts of Maryland and Virginia might have slave up risings.
With the split of the Democrats in 1860 the Republicans and many Northern people may have felt for the first time they controlled the government and not the South. And that is why I have coined the phase the War of Northern Rebellion. There are only about 100 names for our American Civil War whats wrong with one more? LOL

-- posted by FortBrooke1824