Yep. Slavery simply was not threatened in the USA in 1860. Nobody waged a war to defend something that did not need defending. If anybody thought it did, the first thing Lincoln and the Northern dominated Congress offered was slavery effectively forever by express constitutional amendment.
Expansion of it was.
Nobody waged a war to defend something that did not need defending.
The Southern leaders of the time would disagree with you.
If anybody thought it did, the first thing Lincoln and the Northern dominated Congress offered was slavery effectively forever by express constitutional amendment.
Said offer being made after the Southern states had seceded and after they adopted a constitution that protected slavery to an extent never dreamed of by Thomas Corwin.
Exactly right.