Wrong moron.
That just proves that the Republicans were willing to bend over backwards to the corrupt, toxic slave owning democrats to preserve the Union.
The Republicans were seeking a peaceful end to slavery.
The Democrats refused and initiated a bloody civil war to maintain their right to keep and spread slavery.
Don't try to piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. The Republicans offered the South continuous protection for slavery. It was an *AMENDMENT* to the US Constitution guaranteeing slavery indefinitely.
Therefore, you cannot come along after the fact and pretend that slavery had a d@mn thing to do with why the Northern states attacked the South.
Trying to make it about slavery is deliberate deceit. If it were about slavery, they never would have offered the deal. They offered the deal, the deal was rejected, therefore it was never about slavery.
The Democrats refused and initiated a bloody civil war to maintain their right to keep and spread slavery.
They already *HAD* the right to keep slavery, and the *REPUBLICANS* were offering them even *MORE* protection for the right to keep slavery!
As long as they stayed in the Union, they would have *ALWAYS* had the right to keep slavery. But you and others like you are trying to make us believe that the North went to war to take that right away from them, (they did not) and that they went to war because the North was trying to take that right away from them. (they did not)
The truth is the North was falling all over themselves to reassure the South that they would *NEVER* threaten slavery.
And as for expansion, it was economically impossible to "expand" slavery. There is no place in the territories at that time where it would have been possible to set up cotton plantations, and slaves were too valuable in the cotton industry to waste on lesser paying tasks.
There would never have been any "expansion", and "expansion" has also now been proven to be a lie.