[dbehsman]

However, as you are well aware, the revolutionary war was not *about* the right to keep owning slaves. The War Of Southern Aggression, on the other hand, *was* all about slavery.

In one of my earlier posts, I pointed out to you that Maryland was a slave holding state until November of 1864. Maryland was in the Union if you'll recall. How can you state that the Civil War (or more correctly the War for Southern Independence) was all about slavery when one of the Union states was a slave holding state?

The War for Southern Independence was started over the issue of secession. The idea of secession had been talked about before. Sometime during the 1820's (I think) New England considered seceding from the Union. The reason being was that they were concerned that the were not being represented well enough with the seat of the federal government so close to the South.

[orionblamblam]

> How can you state that the Civil War (or more correctly the War for Southern Independence) was all about slavery when one of the Union states was a slave holding state?

Wow. You think that's actually a logical arguement?

Ooookaaaayyy...

So one of the non-seceding states was a slave state. But *all* of the states that seceded were slave owning. In their various ordinances of secession and state Constitutions, they point out that the source of their problems was the issue of slavery.