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Care to provide us with some quotes that specifically claim that the problem was primarily with slavery?
Tell me: have you read the ordinances of secession?

No I have not. That's why I was asking you for some direct quotes that specifically state that the problem was primarily with slavery?

I have noticed that you have not answered a single question that I brought up that challenges your view that slavery was the cause in the War for Southern Independence.

I have also noticed your viciousness in referring to the South (calling them "scumbags", "losers", etc.) in other posts. I would like to remind you that the war was incredibly costly in terms of human life lost and property destroyed. The people in the South were and remain Americans. I do not like to lightly make fun of the tragedy that took place in which we made war upon or fellow countrymen, regardless of their opinion. Many Southerners were against slavery. Robert E. Lee detested slavery. Stonewall Jackson hated slavery also. But they hated the idea of being coerced into remaining in the Union more. Personally, I believe that the South started the war. It was Edmund Ruffin after all who fired the first shot. But in all fairness, it was Lincoln who started to raise troops (with the intention of invading the South) as soon as the threat of secession started to take root.