Please provide the class with any evidence you have that secession was a declaration of war. While you may have a point that one big reason for secession was slavery. The reason for the war was northern aggression.Actually slavery was exactly what the South went to war for. It says so in the Cornerstone speech and articles of secession from various confederate states. In these declarations you rarely got past the first 2-3 sentences without slavery being mentioned as the reason.The north did not attack the south over slavery. The south did not defend it's people from attack by the north over slavery. The north did not refuse to remove it's troops from sovereign lands over slavery. The first shots were not over slavery. The fight was over land and control, not slavery. Slavery was the excuse given.Touchy, aren't you? The nutters I refer to claim it wasn't about slavery at all.Remember when the asshole lying POS OPs knew what the word only meant? The civil war wasn't only about slavery, dumb ass.Remember that when the nutters try to claim that the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
Cornerstone Speech - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
"Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."