The reasons why the South left are irrelevant to why there was a war. There was a war because the Union invaded them, and that invasion had not a D@mn thing to do with Slavery.
Your side keeps dragging up slavery as a justification for the war, but you keep ignoring the fact that in order for it to be a justification for sending 35,000 men to invade, the invasion had to have something to do with slavery.
It didn't.
No, it's totally relevant that Confederates first declared secession and wrote a new constitution to protect slavery and then refused to end the war they started short of Unconditional Surrender, if it meant the loss of slavery.
DiogenesLamp: "There was a war because the Union invaded them the Confederacy assaulted Fort Sumter, and that invasion attack had not a D@mn thing to do with Slavery."
There, fixed it for you. Sure, you're welcome, no problem.
DiogenesLamp: "Your side keeps dragging up slavery as a justification for the war, but you keep ignoring the fact that in order for it to be a justification for sending 35,000 men to invade, the invasion had to have something to do with slavery.
It didn't."
What you keep ignoring is: just as the US did not attack Japan or Germany before Pearl Harbor, so the Union did not attack the Confederacy before Fort Sumter, or before the Confederacy formally declared war against the United States on May 6, 1861.