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Tidewater said:

The difference was Harper's Ferry, the apotheosis of John Brown (northern Republican politicians saying, "John Brown was right."), the refusal of northern (Republican) governors of Iowa and Ohio to extradite members of John Brown's party (Barclay Coppoc, Francis Merriam, Owen Brown), the Republican endorsement of Rowan H. Helper's Impending Crisis, the Texas Troubles.
You, of course, know nothing of this, but southerners knew exactly what they were dealing with.
The Resolutions of Botetourt County, Virginia, (residents of Botetourt County were 26% black and 21% slaveholding, in other words, 79% non-slaveholding), so how exactly did the minority slaveholding residents convince the nonslaveholding majority to adopt these resolutions? You don't know and you don't care; it contradicts your bigoted opinions):

Slavery did not cause the war, northern violent antislavery caused secession, and northern business interests convinced Lincoln that peaceful secession would be catastrophic to northern (largely Republican), so democratically decided secession could not be allowed to stand. No matter that southern people had democratically voted for the policy. It would be disastrous for Northern money-making, so it had to be over-ruled by force and a flag waved over the effort to legitimize the effort.
No antislavery violence, no secession, not that you would care. "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" is all that matters to you.
What comes through in your posts is hatred and ignorance. Congrats.

Here's the test of your little theory ("Slavery caused to the war."), if northern states were to appropriate money to purchase southern slaves at market value from southern slaveholders, and transported the slaves to northern states, and gave them 40 acres and a mule, slavery would have been just as dead as it was in December 1865, when the XIII Amendment was ratified, but do you really believe that, in that circumstance, a war would have broken out? Di you really believe that southern slaveholders would have convinced the 75% majority of white southerners that secession was the right response? My belief is that the 75% white southern majority would not have supported secession in those circumstances. Secession would not have happened.
But if you do, you are as big a bigot as I think you are.

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