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" The plaque, erected by the Children of the Confederacy in 1959, reads in part '…the war between the states was not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery.'

Take it down for being inaccurate if for no other reason.

Well if it isn’t the village idiot chiming in. Good morning, have you gotten to polishing your Lincoln statue?...

Take down EVERY northern plaque which says the war was fought to end slavery. They are inaccurate as well. The north offered to enshrine slavery into the Constitution and voted to do so before the war. All of their lies need to be taken down from wherever they are across the north. THIS movement is coming.

"She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?

The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States....

...In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon the unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of the equality of all men, irrespective of race or color--a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of the Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and the negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States."

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html

Sure LOOKS like it was about keeping slaves! In fact, it looks like it was largely about the refusal to allow slaves everywhere else in the country.

Take the plaque down! And before folks start screaming I lick Abraham Lincoln's boots: I was named after Robert E. Lee. Just finished reading a biography about him. And I admire, on the whole, Nathan Bedford Forrest. But saying the war wasn't about slavery is silly. The states that left said WHY they left.

It is quite accurate. Historical revisionists simply don't want to accept the truth.

Slavery was legally protected in the USA, and would have continued being legally protected in the USA absent an attempt by states to break away.

Lincoln was even desirous to make it even more legally protected than it already was. (Corwin Amendment)