[jeffersondem]

“The Editorial demonstrates yet again that Civil War was indeed about slavery . . .”

Like the other affable Joe, our Brother Joe is mired in confusion caused, probably, from reading too much from his own Ministry of Truth.

Next: Brother Joe provides facts showing Lincoln's 1861 special military operation was designed to attack slave owners and “free the slaves” in Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and other Union slave states.

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "Next: Brother Joe provides facts showing Lincoln's 1861 special military operation was designed to attack slave owners and 'free the slaves' in Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and other Union slave states."

Oddly enough, Lincoln did try to free the slaves in Delaware, just as he did in Washington, DC, through law, using compensated emancipation.
Turns out, the good citizens of Delaware & Kentucky chose not to accept compensation, preferring to wait until their slaves were freed by Constitutional Amendment, without compensation.

Marylanders, West Virginians & Missourians chose to free their slaves on their own, without waiting for a national Constitutional Amendment.

None of those Union slave-states chose rebellion to prevent emancipation.
Union leaders understood from Day One that states in rebellion were driven first to defend slavery, and that attacking their slavery was essential to destroying their rebellion -- so they did.

That's why, Virginia, it was indeed all about slavery.