Based on Karl Marx's analysis of the causes of the U. S. Civil War in his article of 20 October 1861, What proof does Marx offer for his claim that the true goal of the Confederacy was the maintenance of a system of slavery, rather than the British press' claim that the Civil War was about the Southerner's desire for independence from Northern domination?

Karl Max as a literary writer of the Tribune Newspaper based in England has always viewed the war as a Southern aggression through which they tried to preserve the political dominance rather than desire for independence from Northern domination.

This is because, before the election of Lincoln, all previous elected president were slave owners or pro-slavery. And the slave-owners dominated the Congress and Supreme Court as well. When the Northern States started to dorminate in the congress as a result of the influx of people from Europe, the Southern states became jittery.

This is because they believed that, since slave was abolished in Northern States, it is a matter of time when the higher number of Northern congress menber would sue for abolishment of slave trade and slavery as whole.