[Non-Sequitur]

What I am trying to say is that Slavery may have been the excuse in 1861 but not the roots of the cause.

I would disagree

[Idabilly]

I would disagree

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Lord Russell:

"The North fought for empire which was not and never had been hers; the South for an independence she had won by the sword, and had enjoyed in law and fact ever since the recognition of the thirteen 'sovereign and independent States,' if not since the foundation of Virginia. Slavery was but the occasion of the rupture, in no sense the object of the war."