Ok, so now you want to make the war about a rock and brick pile in the middle of the Cooper River? Which is it? Real estate or slavery?
As I’ve said before, its amazing how desperate some supposed “conservatives” are to bash the South endlessly, to worship at the altar of big government, to want to centralize all power and use that centralized power to dictate to others how they must live.
Good thing they’re “conservatives” because otherwise they would be completely indistinguishable from Leftists.
No one claims Lincoln initial purposes were to free the slaves. At least no one here. That is just a Straw Man.
Had the Slavers not panicked and started firing slavery would have lasted at least another decade, maybe longer.
Slavers DID fight the war to preserve slavery and made no bones about it. Only their apologists here make claims to the contrary.
Lincoln fought to preserve the Union. Not to free the slaves. In 1860 only the Abolitionists had that goal and they were not a majority.