[Walts Ice Pick]

And the War was for more than slavery

That's right. Slavery was really little more than incidental, as shown by the Mississippi's Declaration of Secession:

http://americancivilwar.com/documents/causes_mississippi.html

[beckysueb]

Lincoln was willing to leave the slavery issue just as it was if the south would just not secede. He wanted to compromise and leave the slavery issue alone in exchange for not expanding it to other states and for the south to stay in the union. But the south seceded anyway because it wasn’t about slavery, it was about states rights. If it had been about slavery, they would have taken Lincolns offer.

[Non-Sequitur]

Slavery was really little more than incidental, as shown by the Mississippi's Declaration of Secession:

I assume you're being sarcastic?

[BnBlFlag]

walt, are you back again?