re: Civil War... States Rights or Slavery

You can read the Republican’s platform in 1860, you can read Lincoln before and during the war, you can read the congressional resolution for the reason for the war, you can read the originally proposed 13th amendment that passed in both houses, and you can read the emancipation proclamation. The north was not going to war to abolish slavery, they were conceding slavery to prevent disunion. Concession didn’t work so they went to war to prevent disunion. The Confederacy was trying to negotiate peace as soon as it was formed.