I honestly don't care one way or the other what you believe, but I will point out that my reply was in response to jeffersondem's rather ludicrous suggestion that the whole conflict could have been avoided by amending the Constitution to end slavery.
Which one of your opinions should I believe?
When you take things out of context then it's hard to understand why you believe what you believe.
Never the less it was your honest assessment of the "free will" of the states absent coercion. You voiced it before you realized it supported my point that the 13th and 14th amendments were coerced by Washington DC.
You know very well the Southern states would have never voted for those amendments absent coercion.