The North didn't go to war to free the slaves.
That's right. The north went to war in response to SC firing on union troops in Ft Sumter. The south went to war first, and SC went to war because... let's see they wrote down there reasons and it went somthing like this, paragraph for paragraph (There are 30 paragraphs in SC’s “Declaration of Immediate Causes” of secession.):
The first 14 are South Carolina’s justifications for it’s belief in the right to secede and become a free and independent state.
15 - Accuses the Union govt of not living up to the constitution and 16 and 17 prepare the reader for the list that follows.
18 - is the first listing of any breech in constitutional law. It says, “"No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due." First reason listed: Slavery.
18 – Slaves is our property.
19 – Slaves is our property jus’ like horses and yer granpappy agreed with our granpappy that it was so.
20 – Y’all Yankees don’t be sending back our fugitives neither; an’ that makes us madder’n a struck hornet nest.
21 – The free states are picking on us slave states
22 – What the constitution says is y’all shouldn’t oughtn’t be doin’ it
23 – The Union is stomping on us slave holders
24 – You guys is making our slaves uppity and we don’t like it
25 – 25 years now of this anti slavery thing and we are getting tired of it, and now you elect this Lincoln fella.
26 – Now some of you Yankees are even makin’ negroes citizens when they should be out pickin’ cotton..
27 – When Lincoln is sworn in he’s a gonna shoot us ifn we don give up our darkies.
28 – An when he does, we ain’t a gonna be able to keep or slaves.
29 – You Yankees don’t unnerstan’ that God said we could keep ‘em, and there’s a gonna be a knock down drag out if’n ya don’t.
30 – So we gonna leave.
