Why didn’t you give a link to the source of those quotations? That’s obviously a list chosen to portray the war as being for slavery. Some of the quotations, though, concern reasons for secession, which are different from the motivations for which most of the soldiers themselves fought.
>>”The leaders of the time disagree with you.”<<
Who in that list has the statue and reputation of the leaders I quoted, Lee and Lincoln?
Most of them are either from the Southern Declarations of the Causes of Secession or speeches from the Confederate Secession Commissioners to various secession conventions.
Who in that list has the statue and reputation of the leaders I quoted, Lee and Lincoln?
Well it would be hard to find a quote from Lincoln saying he was fighting to preserve slavery. A the time of secession Lee was an army officer in Texas. Most of the quotes I provided either predated the rebellion or were from leaders during the rebellion. But if you like I can add a quote from Alexander Stephens saying it was all over slavery. Would that help?
>>”Who in that list has the statue and reputation of the leaders I quoted, Lee and Lincoln?” [Gjones2]
Oops, I had monuments on my mind, and wrote “statue” — it should have been “stature” (though I don’t imagine they have statues to match them either :-). Sorry.