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Money was the meat of the war. "Slavery" was a side dish.
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Does Diogenes know anything at all about the arguments of the 1850s?
Did he sleep through all that when he was in school?
No and yes.
DiogenesLamp also refuses to read numerous posts which blow his whole narrative out of the water.
So DiogenesLamp is not here as a truth-seeker or truth-teller, but only for one reason: to propagandize a false historical narrative which turns 1860s Democrats into today's Republicans and 1860s Republicans into today's Democrats.
In short, he's here to rewrite history regardless of real facts, reasons or logic.
That's why he can't be bothered to read & learn the many points on which his cockamamie nonsense utterly fails.