re: Slavery was not the only issue the South was fighting for

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One of the biggest ideals was "state's rights," which is guaranteed by the constitution.

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The Confederates took the US Constitution and made a few changes.

They didn't do more than add window dressing about the confederate states having any more independence or rights. The intro was revised to read: "We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity,..."

They did nothing in Article III to weaken the federal courts.

But they made damned sure to be clear about slaves: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."

They also clarified that "The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired."

And they mandated that slavery be the law in all new territories of the CSA: "In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government;"

So slavery was pretty important to the folks who drew up the constitution of the CSA. States rights, otherwise, did not get much ink in the constitution.