“People sold what they wanted to do as an idea they thought the public would support, not one they knew would provoke a backlash against them.”
I just realized the true meaning of the words which you yourself wrote. You are saying that for the vast majority of Southerners, including 99% of all soldiers and civilians, the Confederacy’s reason for fighting in the Civil War was in fact the preservation of slavery. Only a small cabal of Machiavellian politicians knew the true secret of their noble cause.
Not that I believe that of course, but your own words support the interpretation that the Civil War was fought over slavery.
The trouble with arguing with people who want to believe what they want to believe is that they hear what they want to hear.
That's all you. I had no input on that claim.
Not that I believe that of course, but your own words support the interpretation that the Civil War was fought over slavery.
The North did not invade to stamp out slavery. They invaded to stamp out independence. Therefore the war was over independence, not slavery. Do you not remember me showing you the Corwin Amendment which is the Northern Republicans handing the South slavery on a silver platter? Did you forget about that?
If you have some copies of orders that show the Military was instructed to stamp out slavery when they initially invaded, I'm perfectly willing to accept your claim that Northern Armies invaded because of slavery.
The absolute truth is that the Northern Armies which invaded had no intention of changing the slavery situation at all.