[Non-Sequitur]

The civil war was not fought over slavery.Most people in the north didnt care about freeing the slaves.Sad fact but a fact just the same.

Partly correct. It's true that the overwhelming majority of the folks up North didn't give a damn about blacks or slavery. But defense of the institution of slavery was by far the single most important reason why the southern states began their rebellion.

[Bluntpoint]

I am going to say it again. Silk.

If only the south went silk not cotton, we would not still be having this disussion.

Silk worms have no constituency.

[IronJack]

defense of the institution of slavery was by far the single most important reason why the southern states began their rebellion.

I disagree. Several "insurrections" preceded the Confederate assault on Fort Sumter. The South was tired of having its soil "occupied" by forces alien and hostile to it, in defiance of the states' right prerogative embodied in the Constitution and cherished in the South at a level unmatched in the industrialized North.

[Old Professer]

Partly correct. It's true that the overwhelming majority of the folks up North didn't give a damn about blacks or slavery. But defense of the institution of slavery was by far the single most important reason why the southern states began their rebellion.

At the beginning of Secession the contemporary slave-holdings were legal under law. As usual, the crux of contention was future holdings and changing attitudes made rancorous by economis and political maneuvering in D.C.

The war was fought over the "Territories", nothing more, nothing less; the North won, the Indians paid the price and the West was won.

[Trickyguy]

No, it wasn't. It was over Northern taxation and economic
explotation of the South.

[JoniReb]

No, most people in the north did not give a damn about blacks or slavery. Even Abe Lincoln, "the great emancipator" said if he could preserve the union without freeing one slave he would do so. ....... Does that tell you anything? Slavery was brought to the fore during this war by lincoln by using the E.P. as a political tool only!