This party was a week ago, which you missed out on. Once again though Kaos, your opinion on the matter and the facts are two completely different things. If you honestly think the war had nothing to do with slavery, well, you are an ardtard.
Sorry. I've been busy. I was prowling.
The war is over when I say it's over, dammit. And it ain't over.
I never said the war had nothing to do with slavery. But if you'd do your research you'd find that slavery was a very minor part of the motives behind the war. Yes there were objections to certain states which had no need for slave labor dictating regulations and rules to those states which did have that need, but the actual disagreement was over the right to legislate, not over the moral implications of slavery.
Slavery became an issue when -- and only when -- the passion for the war in the northern states had all but abated, the Confederate Army was on the verge of winning (due to that lack of passion) and the public sentiment in the Union States had turned to "ahhh, fuck 'em. Let them have their own shit country, who gives a fuck."
Lincoln realized that he needed something to energize the flagging Union passions. The people couldn't be convinced to fight -- or at least fight well -- for a political cause, particularly against their own countrymen. He needed a moral standard to ignite the flame. Slavery was the issue he chose. Not out of some deep moral obligation, but in order to give his war a cause.
For you, or anyone else, to say "the war was about slavery" shows a tremendous lack of understanding.
If the war was about slavery, why didn't Lincoln free the slaves? Read the emancipation proclamation. He freed no one. That document was nothing but posturing/grandstanding.