[redgolum]

Which, at their heart, had slavery as the cause.

Slavery wasn’t the only issue, but it was the driving one.

[tumblindice]

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm

[Bonemaker]

“Slavery wasn’t the only issue, but it was the driving one.”

Not. Only on the part of wild eyed abolitionists of the time like John Brown.That type would be equivalent of today’s antifa and radical left democrats.

[tsomer]

According to Lincoln, it was not:
“I have not designs on slavery....
Likewise, W T Sherman had no qualms.

How can these people continue a this myth that even their own leadership disavowed?