Again, the North had taken slavery off the table by passing the Corwin amendment through congress. What I mean here is that so far as the Northern states were concerned, slavery could persist indefinitely, therefore they were not fighting against the South because the South had slavery.
The North did not launch a war over slavery. They just didn't.
Ergo, "slavery" was not the cause over which the war was began.
The North didn’t launch a war, and you know that. The rebels in the southern states started a war by firing the first shot at an American fort.
Now you should also know that the reason the slavocracy rebelled is because of slavery. They mention slavery more than any other reason in both their declarations and the statements they made at their rebel conventions.
I think about this and I wonder: “Why at Fort Sumter?
Many other federal properties had already come under Confederate control.
History does not record any shots fired at:
South Carolina seizures:
United States Arsenal at Charleston
Fort Moultrie
Fort Johnson
Castle Pinckney
Georgia seizures:
United States Arsenal at Augusta
Dahlonega Mint
Fort Jackson
Fort Pulaski
Oglethorpe Barracks
Alabama seizures:
United States Arsenal at Mount Vernon
Fort Morgan
Fort Gaines
Mississippi seizure:
Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island
Florida seizures:
United States Arsenal at Apalachicola
Pensacola Navy Yard (Warrington Ship Yard)
Fort Marion
Fort McRee
Fort Barrancas and Barrancas Barracks
Louisiana seizures:
United States Arsenal at Baton Rouge
New Orleans Mint
United States paymaster’s office at New Orleans
Fort Jackson
Fort Saint Philip
Fort Pike
Fort Macomb
Baton Rouge Barrack
Texas seizures:
United States Arsenal at San Antonio
Fort Clark
Camp Verde
San Antonio Barracks
Arkansas seizures:
United States Arsenal at Little Rock
United States ordnance stores at Napoleon
United States subsistence stores at Pine Bluff
Fort Smith
North Carolina seizures:
United States Arsenal at Fayetteville
Charlotte Mint
Fort Johnston
Fort Caswell
Fort Macon
Missouri seizures:
United States Arsenal at Liberty
United States ordnance stores at Kansas City
The South seceded over slavery. They launched their war to further that aim.