[justshutupandtakeit]

The only State's "right" that was at issue was the "right" to hold slaves. Of course, this was never a "right" in the first place and was fundamentally at odds with the motive forces which produced the USA. I have no more "right" to hold you a slave than you have a "right" to kill me at a whim.

All the leaders of the South frankly admitted, and went on about it at length, that the fight was over slavery. It is only their intellectual descendents who pretend that there were other issues. Without the issue of slavery there would have been no War.

[U S Army EOD]

Sorry but there were quite a few more issues, most of these were economic. Slavery itself was also an economic issue since a good deal of the South's money was tied up in the ownership of slaves. The North and the South were two different worlds and were on a collision course regardless of slavery, there was going to be a war. I would have had a hard time deciding which side to fight on, especially if I was already an officer in the army.