Shooter - have you ever studied Nullification? Or have you ever studied the resistance to expansion of Federal government power which was in play leading up to the Civil War?
I am one Southerner who does not deny that slavery was an issue leading to the war. However, there were other factors in the totality of the escalation of hostilities which lead to full blown war. The Civil War was not predicated solely on the issue of slavery. Resistance to the expansion of Federal power was more directly involved than was slavery.
I read the Declarations of Secession and that was enough for me. The number of times the slave states mentioned slavery over and over made it crystal clear.
And they had the nerve to mention the Northern states were infringing on their Freedom to have slaves.