Only three of them cite slavery. Most of them simply say we secede. There is no question slavery was used to gen up support for secession among the Southern population after the decision to secede had been made. So what? The constant fallacy in these debates is in conflating secession with the cause of the war in the first place. The war was entirely a Northern project and the North pursued the war for its own ends, slavery not being among them.
There were four Declarations of the Causes of Secession and they all prominently cite slavery as their reason for rebelling.
The constant fallacy in these debates is in conflating secession with the cause of the war in the first place. The war was entirely a Northern project and the North pursued the war for its own ends, slavery not being among them.
So what you're saying is that Lincoln tricked the confederacy into war and that the Southern leadership was too stupid to see through his trap? Doesn't say much about them, does it?