He claimed it was, yet little reason exists to believe him.
You can't really believe the crap you post.
Do you think Lincoln's call for volunteers on 15 April, 1861 was filled to overflowing because of tariffs? That hundreds of thousands of loyal Union men joined the army to fight for tariffs?
It's complete nonsense. They joined because this made sense to them:
"And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man, the question whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy--a government of the people, by the same people, can, or cannot, maintain its territorial integrity, against its own domestic foes. It presents the question, whether discontented individuals too few in numbers to control administration, according to organic law, in any case, can always, upon the pretenses made in this case, or on any other pretenses, or arbitrarily without any pretense, break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth."
A. Lincoln 7/4/61
It is just complete nonsense to say that the war was fought over tariffs.
Loyal Union men, north and south fought for Union. The rebels fought to maintain slavery. Slavery was the cause of the war.
Walt
It is consistently more believable and of greater logical soundness than anything you ever post around here. Therefore if we are to presume that my posts are what you describe them to be, your posts must, by comparison, have no coherence to them whatsoever. Are you prepared to admit that?
Do you think Lincoln's call for volunteers on 15 April, 1861 was filled to overflowing because of tariffs?
No doubt some of them from protected industries did. Many more were likely duped into a patriotic belief that they were actually saving "The Union," when in fact that union was a borrowed name.