[Blood of Tyrants]

The South simply wished to be left to do as they wished.

[jmacusa]

Yes. To preserve a system of industry based on the use of slave labor.

And it chose a path of violent secession in order to do this.

“War of Northern Aggression’’. What a crock.

The South opened the ball when it fired on Ft. Sumter.

[DoodleDawg]

The South simply wished to be left to do as they wished.

Then starting a war was a strange way to go about it.