Because the link went to little more than a blog entry. It was one step above complaining about the “evil jews” controlling international banking, or the Illuminati.
It was unimpressive. No more, no less. If you wish to make a case you need more than that. Slavery was the issue.
Sorry. That’s why I gave you the speeches from the President and Vice President of the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War. It was the clearest snapshot of the motives from the time itself, not the revisionism afterwards.
He’ll probably tell you next that you aren’t really Catholic because the Irish only converted to Catholicism 1300 years ago.