does one person speak for a country? No course not, many people had different views n why they shoudl fight or leave the north .
Funny how America fought for indepedance but the north woudl not give the south independance .
You stated about Stephens but even old honest Abe admitted it was not about slavery.
To Brown it was, tom some slave owners it was but the vast amount of folks in te south and the north it was not.
Most in the north denied the south to have independance and most in the south wanted their freedom from the north and DC
Hey Johnny reb why you fighting
er because you are here on my land in my state
If they are part of the leadership of that country and presumably familiar with why that country decided to initiate a war, then yes.
You stated about Stephens but even old honest Abe admitted it was not about slavery.
In the quote from Lincoln's Second Inaugural address that I just posted to you, he says that everyone knew that slavery was the cause of the war.