“Live in any fantasy world you choose. The Civil war was fought to end slavery.”
Of course Lincoln believed that he was fighting it to Preserve The Union, but what would he know?
From his First Inaugural:
“Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property, and their peace, and personal security, are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them...”
Squirm all you like but you are defending slavery. If the Southern patricians had disavowed the immoral theft of other peoples labor there would never have been a war.
You demanded an answer from me and I gave it to you in the voice of Jesus Christ himself.
Now I demand an answer from you. Would there have been a war if the southern patricians has freed their slaves?
The south began the war to further, extend and protect slavery.
The US government with many southern men as well as northern men, fought to end the insurrection.
Ending slavery was one way to weaken the insurrection, and crucially, the insurrectionists.