I have no hatred for southerners, I am one, but let’s study the issue truthfully, the confederacy was created by democrats in order that they would not have to debate or vote on slavery in the halls of congress.
Too many southron scholars see Lincoln’s brilliant tactic of offering a permanence to slavery to the south as sign he was willing to allow it to be formally legalized in the United States Constitution, he wasn’t so inclined. He wanted a debate and a vote knowing that in Congress the forces of slavery would surely lose, they knew it too and so the confederacy was born to escape the debate over slavery.
First of all, you can't equate an 1860 democrat with a 2008 democrat. I mean, can you see a Barack Obama running for anything on an 1860 democrat ticket?
Second, I have studied the issue. If you remove slavery as the occasion for secession and add any one of the other divisive issues between north and South the results would be the same.
He wanted a debate and a vote knowing that in Congress the forces of slavery would surely lose, they knew it too and so the confederacy was born to escape the debate over slavery.
Lincoln wanted a centralized government and a dictatorship. He got one out of two.