re: Haley declines to say slavery was cause of Civil War

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If not for slavery, there would have been no secession and war. Get serious, man.

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But slavery was a thing. Evil? yes. Morally reprehensible? Yes. But it was nonetheless, a component of the United States national foundation and union.

If not for Northern attempts to sublimate Southern rights in accordance with the Constitution, there would have been no secession and war.

It is an important distinction, because there were numerous issues at hand. Southerners felt if a Constitutional guarantee could be vaporized, they could be decimated in other less certain issues like differential tariffs/taxation as well.