was the civil war over slavery

now yes i brought lincoln in to this for only one time to prove my point that he lied and said the was was over slavery. well as i have read your debate there are some raising eyebrows to this now it says that the vice president wrote this not the president of the confederate states of america which it was his opinion not Jeff Davis'. and another is that this was a revolution know that they revolted aginst the union and if we go back in history the first revolution came from taxes which did start a revolt. now after seeing what was wrong how do you know this is a true fact and not something that came from some cheap site. i do want to talk about what the number one general of the Confederacy said about slavery.Robert E. Lee letter dated December 27, 1856: I was much pleased the with President's message. His views of the systematic and progressive efforts of certain people at the North to interfere with and change the domestic institutions of the South are truthfully and faithfully expressed. The consequences of their plans and purposes are also clearly set forth. These people must be aware that their object is both unlawful and foreign to them and to their duty, and that this institution, for which they are irresponsible and non-accountable, can only be changed by them through the agency of a civil and servile war. There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race. While my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more deeply engaged for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race, and will prepare them, I hope, for better things. How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild and melting influences of Christianity than from the storm and tempest of fiery controversy. This influence, though slow, is sure. The doctrines and miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day. Although the abolitionist must know this, must know that he has neither the right not the power of operating, except by moral means; that to benefit the slave he must not excite angry feelings in the master; that, although he may not approve the mode by which Providence accomplishes its purpose, the results will be the same; and that the reason he gives for interference in matters he has no concern with, holds good for every kind of interference with our neighbor, -still, I fear he will persevere in his evil course. . . . Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom have always proved the most intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others? Now this is only a number one general that wrote a letter saying that slavery was wrong and since it is only one person i give you another the President of the Confederate Sates of America. "African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing." ~Davis This says a quote from Jeff Davis himself saying AFRICAN slavery exists in the United States which should prove my point that the war was not over slavery because the United States used this as a political blessing which allowed the Union to say that the war was over slavery a. this is possibly another reason what the war was over all of it could have been politics. Last thing i have to say please vote for me this stuff was looked up in books and several places where it talks about this cruel war and i have looked up the quotes on brain quote for every ones information it is pretty hard to find this stuff since it has been hidden for over a hundred fifty years.