[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "I have it on good authority - from, you might say, an unimpeachable source - that the love of money is the root of all evil."

So you freely confess then that Deep South secessionist slave-holders were driven first & foremost by their "love of money" in slaves and commerce?
And you freely confess that Confederates' "love of money" drove them to provoke, start, declare & wage war until final defeat and unconditional surrender?

If so, then sir, you are a much bigger man than I'd ever imagined.

{but somehow I doubt it}

[central_va]

You and your ilk will never understand. The South hated the North and slavery was the excuse to break away. Think of Lincoln's election as a catalyst and an excuse for secession.

The average Southerner relished the thought of killing Yankees and ridding themselves of the moneyed holier than though overlords in the North. Slavery, whatever. Of course all the glamor went away by 1862 but the slavery issue really wasn't a motivating factor.