[Ditto]

And here is an admission that the Union was perfectly willing to accommodate slavery. So then, the war was not fought over slavery. Thank you. You've made my point. So then, Why did they go to war with the confederacy? If not to eradicate slavery, what was their reasons for doing so?

Is that question willful ignorance, or just garden variety ignorance?

[DiogenesLamp]

And here is an admission that the Union was perfectly willing to accommodate slavery. So then, the war was not fought over slavery. Thank you. You've made my point. So then, Why did they go to war with the confederacy? If not to eradicate slavery, what was their reasons for doing so?

Is that question willful ignorance, or just garden variety ignorance?

I'm not understanding your question. You admitted that slavery could remain legal. Lincoln himself said he would permit slavery to remain legal if the South would just stop fighting. I interpret this as meaning that legal slavery was not the sticking point over which they were fighting.

If you are going to argue the war was fought over slavery, then how can there be any willingness to let it continue?