y, Barnwell and Ruffin took advantage of the sectional hatred of the time and portrayed the North as money and power hungry and "maligned it citizens"
             The propaganda was used was to distort public opinion, to make sure each side had the support of its citizens. In, And The War Came, Stampp; it is argued that there could not have been a civil war if there had not been this propaganda as it was this literature which moulded the mental attitudes of the south and the north, which created the sectional hatred and differences.
             "Before a bloody war could be waged, there had to be a systematic moulding of mental attitudes"
             As with many of the issues at stake during the civil war, Slavery lay at the heart of the propaganda issue. Without the propaganda of the civil war era there could not have been any pro-slavery or anti-slavery agitators, therefore there would not have been the division that was seen over the question of the extension of the slave territory.
             The south's old fashioned, aristocratic way of life was competing with the north's industry and booming economy of the "self made man". These economic differences resulted in a greater sectional hate, the south, "a static, agrarian, debtor section, tied to an economy of staple crops" rejected the North's more capitalist enterprises "a dynamic, commercialised, industrialising, debtor section" to the south, and the stronger more prosperous North was exploiting them. T
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