“I was not discussing the reason for succession - I was discussing the reason for the war. THAT falls on the greed of the North.”
That is yet another romantic Confederate myth and an atrocious lie. The Confederacy was founded by conspirators who schemed to make themselves powerful and wealthy through the usurpation of governments with a view towards founding a slave empire encompassing the Southern U.S. states, Mexico, Cuba, and other regions in Latin America. They used the states rights issue as a phony excuse to rally the citizens of the Southern states to support their covert seizure of political and economic power.
No, it was all about the tariffs. The north could not exist without the tariffs raised through trade in the South. (It is a mater of record that the any state had the right to leave - the constitution could not have been approved without that assurance.) So the North had to “insist” that the South not be permitted to leave.
And by the way, slavery would never been approved in the beginning but for the deciding vote of Massachusetts. Look it up.
Facts can be disturbing.