HawkeyeHater
Not a drunk
See the northerners saw it as a war against slavery. But most southerners saw it and see it as a federal agression. Before the civil war most felt that the Dredd Scott decision reinforced the view that the powers of state superceded those of the federal government and the property (slave) of someone from one state remained their property in another. The north rejected this but it was for the most part states were sovereign and a federation of states made up the United States or Federal government.
With the election of Lincoln his objective was to reverse this by outlawing slavery. This is why one part of the country says the war was about slavery and the other about federal aggression. Realistically though after the Civil war powers were basically reversed and throughout the years the federal governments power has increased to the point it is today that a legislative body of a state can be overturned by a court of the federal government.
Again...... ye sirs are buying into propoganda by revisioinists......