[American Constitutionalist]

True, but that was not the North's reason to start the war in the first place... It was a power grab by the North.
It was the Southern and Northern Democrats who wanted to hold onto slavery.
If the South would have been left alone they would have resolved the issue of slavery on their own.
The view of the South was state's rights, the view of the North was power grabbing and the South was the slaves of the North.
President Lincoln was not the " He freed the slaves " saint and god that everyone makes him out to be.
Read his own writings, he ? he was conflicted, if he could have resolved the war and would have saved the Union without him freeing the slaves ? he would have done so.
In his mind ? it was all about saving the Union before freeing the slaves..... the issue of freeing the slaves before saving the Union became the propaganda of that day.

[Fuzz]

“True”

All that was required. The rest of the nonsense was a waste of your time.