[WhiskeyPapa]

As you well know, war came for completely diffferent reasons.

The expansion of, and the maintenance of, slavery --was the cause of the war. No other factor could have caused a breach.

Walt

[johnny7]

No other factor could have caused a breach.

In your non-humbled, narrow opinion it would seem so obvious. Besides, it's what all the chil'ren are told at skrool.

[PeaRidge]

No other factor?

Well, here are the words of the new President:

On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated 16th President of the US.

In his inaugural address Lincoln was conciliatory about maintaining slavery;
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so”.

He took a hard-line approach in the speech about the South with his insistence on collecting all the customs tariffs in that region. As Lincoln put it, the federal government would hold Union forts in Confederate states.

He said,

“The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and impost but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion—no using force against or among the people anywhere”.

Political leaders in the Confederacy recognized that Lincoln was pledging to hold Ft. Sumter, and use the military to do so. A new order was being reached. This President was prepared to use coercive military action on states that left the Union.

“…no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union…”

Although not referring to it by name, he stated that he would support the Corwin Amendment to the US Constitution. (It said, “No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.")

He said,

“I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution—which amendment, however, I have not seen—has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service.

“To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable."

Your assertions are as usual wrong.