Slavery was a vehicle- but imagine if the southern states objected to the federal government telling them...oh, I dunno... that they had to buy health care?
Abe Lincoln glorified the war as about preserving “The Union” as if “The Union” was some religious deity.
Yeah, right. Some still can’t shake those old democrat party/confederacy fantasies about why the war was fought. The democrat slaveowners stated in writing and by their speech that it was about how Lincoln would free the slaves and would hear no compromise that was offered by him to let slavery be where it was already established.
Secession was about slavery, period. The “states rights” meme was what the democrat aristocrats sold to the non-slave holding population to get them to fight for them. Many of the southern troops came to realize and referred to the war as a “rich man’s war, poor man’s fight”, and they were right.
He did not make slavery a major point until he saw the north losing ground and he needed to gin up support. Then it became all about slavery.
What was it the federal government was telling the Southern states they could not do?
“The Civil war was less about slavery than it was about States Rights”
I believe for the southern business leaders and their puppet politicians it was all about Slavery.
For the overwhelming numbers of southern soldiers who were not slave owners it was about their right to keep their state sovereign.
Slavery was a vehicle- but imagine if the southern states objected to the federal government telling them...oh, I dunno... that they had to buy health care?...
...interesting...hopefully nobody would be stupid enough to frame an armed internecine conflict around such a nonsensical issue...
...better yet, hopefully nobody would be so stupid as to fire upon and repossess a federal fortress, thus precipitating the armed portion of the conflict, over such a preposterous issue...
What rights of what state that pretended to secession?
Total revisionist BS. Read the Confederates reason for secession. Study the 30 year period before secession and see what issue drove division between the states.
Slavery was the only reason the Confederates had.
Abe Lincoln glorified the war as about preserving “The Union” as if “The Union” was some religious deity.
Religious deity? I doubt that. But it was Lincoln's sworn duty as President of the United States to preserve the Union and millions of people agreed with him, and were willing to fight and die to do so.