Your attitude toward the war, a time when a majority was goaded by a very vocal minority to use force of arms to compel others who sought independence to give consent to a government they did not want is disturbing to the free world.
If you argue for strict construction of the Constitution, you are arguing for the Confederate position; if you oppose pork-barrel spending, you are arguing for the Confederate position; if you argue against protective tariffs, you are arguing for the Confederate position and when you argue the Constitution limits the power and the jurisdiction of the federal government, you are arguing for the Confederate position.
Most of our political problems won’t be solved until most people realize, at heart, they are Confederates and……….. the South was right.
Most of the South seceded because it had been the victim of pork barrel spending in other states by virtue of tariffs imposed to protect northern industries and from which the South derived no benefit.
The tariffs paid by the South had supported the Federal government for 87 years and when the South left, so too did their money.
The rest of the South seceded when the Federal government asked them to raise armies to fight their brothers and return that money to the Federal government.
"...most Northern goods were cheaper [than European goods - ed.] in Mobile or Chattanooga only because of high U.S. tariffs on rival foreign manufacturers. These tariffs, which financed 85 to 90 percent of the operations of the federal government, directly and indirectly fell most heavily on agricultural districts, principally in the South and West. Economists have a phrase for this: internal colonialism." -- "The Cousins' War," Kevin Phillips, Basic Books, 1999, pp. 378
"The South has furnished near three-fourths of the entire exports of the country. Last year she furnished seventy-two percent of the whole...we have a tariff that protects our manufacturers from thirty to fifty percent, and enables us to consume large quantities of Southern cotton, and to compete in our whole home market with the skilled labor of Europe. This operates to compel the South to pay an indirect bounty to our skilled labor, of millions annually." -- Daily Chicago Times, December 10, 1860
“So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils … the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.” – Charles Dickens, as editor of All the Year Round, a British periodical in 1862
If the North went to war to rid the union of slavery, I would argue that was essentially 99% complete with the voluntary withdrawal from the union of 11 slave states. Lincoln’s argument that he wanted to save the union rings hollow when consideration the union of our ancestors was a voluntary union is taken into account.
"The principle [of the Emancipation Proclamation] is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States" government.” -- London Spectator October 11, 1862
Edit: Indulge me. Prove the historic inaccuracy of the statement.