The wooden-headed Mr. price.
Precious Johnny.
Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Price!
The civil war didn't become about slavery until midway through when Lincoln figured it for a PR gimmick.
Do you think all those poor Southern boys were giving their lives so that the few rich Southerners could own slaves?!?!
I don't think so.
Lincoln’s letter to Horace Greeley (the media)
regarding that topic:
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm