What *NEVER* gets pointed out in these diatribes is that they were going to keep slavery in the Union, that indeed Lincoln and his associates bent over backwards to guarantee that slavery would persist in those states that wanted it.
Of course this blows a very big hole in the assertion "the war was over slavery."
Not really. Slavery wasn't on the negotiating table at all. The North was doing whatever it could to reassure the South on this point, so no, the North really wasn't motivated to attack them because they hated slavery.
Also, this business of hating slavery in that day and age is not quite the way it's presented nowadays. There were a few abolitionists and such that hated it because they saw it as immoral, but the majority of whites in the North hated it because it brought black people into their societies, and because they saw it as a threat to their labor and wages.
They were very prejudiced in those days, and black laws were created in all sorts of Northern states to keep black people out.
Of course you couldn’t get more than half-way through because the truth conflicts with your dearly held delusion of the war. It’s too bad because some times you show flashes of reasonable thought.