[Rockingham]

With time, a sense of realism, and flexibility, the South could have defused the time bomb of slavery by easing conditions and working toward emancipation. Sadly, the slaveholder class chose secession, thinking that it would be easy to found a new nation.

[DiogenesLamp]

With time, a sense of realism, and flexibility, the South could have defused the time bomb of slavery by easing conditions and working toward emancipation.

That was going to happen anyway, but it does not address the reason why the North invaded them. It was about the money.

Sadly, the slaveholder class chose secession, thinking that it would be easy to found a new nation.

It would have been if the North would have just left them alone. But of course that wasn't going to happen because of the money.