Very true. Though every once and awhile they will slip and admit that slavery did have something to do with it. Jeffersondem did so in an earlier post when he stated;”There is that, John Brown’s northern-financed murder raid, and Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech which supported southern fears that, if elected, Lincoln would use the military to violently overthrow the pro-slavery United States Constitution and destroy the South physically and economically.”
Let's see. Slavery legal in the Union for "Four Score and Seven Years."
Lincoln urged passage of the Corwin Amendment, which actually did pass both houses of Congress and was ratified by 3 or 4 Northern states.
So tell me again what slavery has to do with it? Seems like both sides were in agreement that slavery would continue as it had always been.
Seems like you have to twist a bunch of the truth to even make slavery the issue in the Civil War.
There is that, John Brown’s northern-financed murder raid,
Well certainly John Brown's raid was about Slavery, because he was a dangerous lunatic, little different from the Eco terrorists who burn down buildings and car dealerships to "save the earth."
John Brown *MADE* his focus slavery, and he was not the only dangerous lunatic running around at the time. Those 5 wealthy men in Massachusetts (little different from modern liberal billionaires financing Antifa and other dangerous groups) who financed Brown were still out there, and presumably still intent on provoking a slave revolt in the South.
Incidentally, lest someone get to thinking that these men had some moral issue compelling them to finance these dangerous terrorists, I will now inform you they were all Wool merchants and associates, and Cotton was their number one competitor. Had they wrecked slavery in the South, they would have all seen immense increases in profits due to the unavailability of cotton, which would therefore create the necessity for alternatives.
John Brown was also a wool supplier. That was his primary business, and Cotton represented his gravest economic enemy, so there is a good chance his hatred of slavery had more to do with his own economic problems than it did with any moral concerns.
Yes, the dangerous Lunatics made their actions about "slavery", but this isn't the same as saying this would have been the focus of Southerners without Abolitionist lunatics making them focus on it just for their own self defense.
and Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech which supported southern fears that, if elected, Lincoln would use the military to violently overthrow the pro-slavery United States Constitution and destroy the South physically and economically.”
And did he not do exactly that? Seems like their fears were spot on.