The Civil War Was Not About Slavery

SEE HERE It has become customary to think that the Civil War was about slavery. Certainly slavery was an issue, a deeply repugnant issue centered on man's inhumanity to man. But it was not the primary issue of the Civil War. It never was. Pat Buchanan makes that point in his column. The issue that let to the succession of many of the slave states was the raising of an army to attack their brothers and the right to secede from the union. Lincoln was against it and ready to spill oceans of blood to preserve the union and more Americans fell then in all succeeding wars combined. This began the rabid growth of federal power which we are heirs to today. Only time will tell if Lincoln's final legacy will be a union grown to the status of a prison, a nation bound in chains to a run-away central government.