Abe did not invade VA over that.Sure bob, if you believe the DoI included a defense of slavery.
The Confederate states seceded from the United States for several reasons, including:
- The threat of Lincoln’s election as a sectional candidate and perceived abolitionist leanings.
- Hostility from the Northern states and the abolition movement.
- The argument that the North was no longer upholding the mutual contract of the Constitution, particularly in terms of right to property and the protection of slavery.
- Conflict over slavery in the western territories as the United States expanded in the nineteenth century.
- Direct defenses of racial slavery.
Also the DOI did defend slavery as proven by the US Supreme Court.
