What you wrote is a joke, right?
Because if you are serious, you are either a prevaricator or really, really ignorant.
Actually, those are the facts.
It is Confederate revisionist history that has distorted the truth of what the Confederacy was for and why it attempted secession.
Now, how did the legal election of Lincoln (despite his name not being allowed on Southern ballots) threaten the individual rights of the South?
The only one who had a right to revolt were the slaves.
The South split its own Democratic Party over slavery when Douglas refused to grant the South the right unlimited access to any State no matter how that State voted on slavery.
Even though Democrats voted on both sides of the issue on Tarriff's, it was slavery that broke up first the Democratic Party and then the Union.
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