That's correct. I don't know too many people with any knowledge about the Civil War who believe the North fought to end slavery.
The song, Battle Hymn of the Republic, which is the topic of this thread, states otherwise.
And the "Bonnie Blue Flag" says the South was fighting for liberty. Songs on both sides were meant rally people and were not necessarily statements of national policy.
If that is not correct, then we can dismiss the notion the North fought for some high moral purposed like ending slavery.
As a Confederate supporter I can understand how you could see slavery as the only high moral purpose worth fighting over. But you would be wrong. There were others.
Of course, if the North was fighting because it was in the North's economic and political best self-interest, then, arguably, that was a high moral cause worth killing 600,000 people.
And the Confederacy fought to protect slavery. Is that high moral cause worth 600,000 lives?
“And the Confederacy fought to protect slavery.”
If the Confederacy was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?
I readily acknowledged in my post 47 that there could be other reasons the North fought to destroy the South.
Here's what I wrote: “Of course, if the North was fighting because it was in the North's economic and political best self-interest, then, arguably, that was a high moral cause worth killing 600,000 people.”
You constantly trot out this dodge, and yet I have met few people in my life who do not automatically answer "slavery" when you say "civil war." Whether you wish to acknowledge it or not, the vast bulk of the population believes the war was fought to free the slaves.
Why do they believe this? Because that is the propaganda that has been spread about it ever since it happened.