[FLT-bird]

The President of the CSA....the one who had actual power....said it was not about slavery.

[Blue House Sue]

So that Vice President’s word has no meaning?

[x]

Finally a great party was organized for the purpose of obtaining the administration of the Government, with the avowed object of using its power for the total exclusion of the slave States from all participation in the benefits of the public domain acquired by all the States in common, whether by conquest or purchase; of surrounding them entirely by States in which slavery should be prohibited; of thus rendering the property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless, and thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars. This party, thus organized, succeeded in the month of November last in the election of its candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Message of Jefferson Davis to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, April 29 1861

Davis said that the threat to slavery was the cause for secession. Secession was the cause of the war.

[BillyBoy]

>> The President of the CSA....the one who had actual power....said it was not about slavery. <<

He also said Lincoln was a great man and honorable leader who wanted to make peace with the south, but his neoconfederate fan club conveniently ignores those comments while foaming at the mouth about how evil Lincoln was.