Questions for our American friends

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by DTravel

Hoping to avoid flames here, but if you read the motions for secession and the speeches made to pass them, they all almost universally say that the issue of slavery is the reason. Any mention of "States Rights" was in the form of "the State's Right to keep slaves".

(My apologies to the staff if that was too political.)

It's consistent with what little I know (mainly from a biography of President Lincoln called Lincoln The Unknown). The history of the CSA obviously has a bearing on the discussion. Originalsman's point is addressed, and with reasonable politeness as is only right. But let's be mindful of the emotiveness of this subject.