Re: Was that the real cause?

Per the words of the slave south the only state's right at hazard was
the right to own and treat as property other human beings.  It was the
slave south's desire to protect slavery from what it imagined as a
threat from an incoming "Black Republican" administration that brought
secession, and it was secession/rebellion that brought the north to
fight to preserve the Union.

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But the Confederate flag flew over slavery every day that the
Confederacy existed.

The slave south cleaved to slavery and argued to expand slavery long
after the north and the rest of the western world gave it up.

When did the slave south start to recognize that slavery was no longer
an economic benefit?  Who in the slave south said so?  How about the
fact that slavery was the only way that white southerners could see as
a means of social control of blacks?

Yep.

Starting with the Confiscation Acts and going through the Emancipation
Proclaimation freeing slaves was a war measure designed to weaken the
Confederacy.  A total end to slavery had always been a war aim for some
in the north, and it became a war aim for nearly all.

No, which is part of the reason why Lincoln abandoned it.

Dear Group,
   Many people say that the Civil War was fought over slavery, and then
again many say that it was fought over States Rights.  My question is, what
do you think is the correct answer?  Or is either of the answers correct?
   I am asking this because, slavery existed in this country for over 200
years prior to the Civil War.  Not once did a Confederate flag fly over a
flag ship.  So who is really to blame for those men, women, and children
being in bondage?
   However, since the Confederacy started to realize that it was no longer
economically sound to keep slaves, wouldn't slavery been a thing of the past
before to long?  Was the North really fighting to preserve the Union?  Were
they really fighting to free those in bondage?
   What about Lincoln's plan to colonize those in bondage in a different
country, would it have worked?  What do you think?

Nate