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Re: Why the Civil War was not about slavery

Here are some other reasons----

!. Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address-- "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

2. The 13th or Ghost Amendment to the Constitution-- "No Amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." --Joint Resolution of Congress, Adopted March 2, 1861

#. Lincoln overturns Fremont's Emancipation--- Major General Frémont's Emancipation Proclamation

In a proclamation issued by General John C. Frémont, dated Hqs. of the Western Dept., in command of the Dept. of Missouri at St. Louis, August 31, 1861: Fremont, instituted martial law in Missouri, and declared that slaves of all Missourians taking up arms against the United States would be freed.

3. The 1st Emancipation Proclamation-- According to this wording Lincoln was giving the Confederacy a chance to declare peace and return to the Union thus keeping their slaves.--- That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;

4. Lincoln's 2nd EP--- "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,

and he goes on to list these exceptions---- "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,

5. Letter to Horace Greely as pointed out by Danny Odom--- 'I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear,"

6. West Virginia was allowed into the Union as a slave state.--- http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Willey_Waitman_T_1811-1900

7. In an interview with ----- James Roberts Gilmore (1822-1903) who also wrote under the pseudonym Edmund Kirke, was the author of: Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time (1862), My Southern Friends (1863), Down in Tennessee (1864) and On the Border (1867). Gilmore published this account of the trip he had made to Richmond in July with James F. Jaquess in The Atlantic Monthly under his pen name Edmund Kirke.

http://southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2011226

Well worth the time it takes to read.

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I rest my case that slavery WAS NOT a cause of the war. It was simply a war for money.

I can't think of anything I might have missed. If anyone can think of anything please advise.

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