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You know, this is a question that was answered in 1861 and since people will not accept my answer, I direct this question to the contemporaries who lived this history. I introduce to you the transcripts from the Texas Declaration of Causes. Let the people of that day answer this question. My question becomes, who do you believe, people who did not live that history or people who actually did??? Let the record speak for itself below in this primary source document. By the way, if you read the other states’ declarations you will find the same answer.TexasA Declaration of the Causes that Impels the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union.The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date the 1st day of March, in the year A.D. 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texas, then *a free, sovereign and independent nation* [emphasis in the original], the annexation of the latter to the former, as one of the co-equal states thereof,The people of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, on the fourth day of July of the same year, assented to and accepted said proposals and formed a constitution for the proposed State, upon which on the 29th day of December in the same year, said State was formally admitted into the Confederated Union.Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretenses and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slaveholding States.By the disloyalty of the Northern States and their citizens and the imbecility of the Federal Government, infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law, to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States (this is actually denouncing states’ rights and exalting federal authority).The Federal Government, while but partially under the control of these our unnatural and sectional enemies, has for years almost entirely failed to protect the lives and property of the people of Texas against the Indian savages on our border, and more recently against the murderous forays of banditti from the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when our State government has expended large amounts for such purpose, the Federal Government has refuse reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas.These and other wrongs we have patiently borne in the vain hope that a returning sense of justice and humanity would induce a different course of administration.When we advert to the course of individual non-slave-holding States, and that a majority of their citizens, our grievances assume far greater magnitude.The States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa, by solemn legislative enactments, have deliberately, directly or indirectly violated the 3rd clause of the 2nd section of the 4th article [the fugitive slave clause] of the federal constitution, and laws passed in pursuance thereof; thereby annulling a material provision of the compact, designed by its framers to perpetuate the amity between the members of the confederacy and to secure the rights of the slave-holding States in their domestic institutions-- a provision founded in justice and wisdom, and without the enforcement of which the compact fails to accomplish the object of its creation. Some of those States have imposed high fines and degrading penalties upon any of their citizens or officers who may carry out in good faith that provision of the compact, or the federal laws enacted in accordance therewith.In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color-- a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States.For years past this abolition organization has been actively sowing the seeds of discord through the Union and has rendered the federal congress the arena for spreading firebrands and hatred between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States.By consolidating their strength, they have placed the slave-holding States in a hopeless minority in the federal congress and rendered representation of no avail in protecting Southern rights against their exactions and encroachments. They have proclaimed, and at the ballot box sustained, the revolutionary doctrine that there is a 'higher law' than the constitution and laws of our Federal Union, and virtually that they will disregard their oaths and trample upon our rights.They have for years past encouraged and sustained lawless organizations to steal our slaves and prevent their recapture and have repeatedly murdered Southern citizens while lawfully seeking their rendition.They have invaded Southern soil and murdered unoffending citizens, and through the press their leading men and a fanatical pulpit have bestowed praise upon the actors and assassins in these crimes, while the governors of several of their States have refused to deliver parties implicated and indicted for participation in such offenses, upon the legal demands of the States aggrieved.They have, through the mails and hired emissaries, sent seditious pamphlets and papers among us to stir up servile insurrection and bring blood and carnage to our firesides.They have sent hired emissaries among us to burn our towns and distribute arms and poison to our slaves for the same purpose.They have impoverished the slave-holding States by unequal and partial legislation, thereby enriching themselves by draining our substance.They have refused to vote appropriations for protecting Texas against ruthless savages, for the sole reason that she is a slave-holding State.And, finally, by the combined sectional vote of the seventeen non-slave-holding States, they have elected as president and vice-president of the whole confederacy two men whose chief claims to such high positions are their approval of these long and continued wrongs, and their pledges to continue them to the final consummation of these schemes for the ruin of the slave-holding States.In view of these and many other facts, it is meet that our own views should be distinctly proclaimed.We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.That in this free government *all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights* [emphasis in the original]; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states.By the secession of six of the slave-holding States, and the certainty that others will speedily do likewise, Texas has no alternative but to remain in an isolated connection with the North, nor unite her destinies with the South.For these and other reasons, solemnly asserting that the federal constitution has been violated and virtually abrogated by the several States named, seeing that the federal government is now passing under the control of our enemies to be diverted from the exalted objects of its creation to those of oppression and wrong, and realizing that our own State can no longer look for protection, but to God and her own sons-- We the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled, have passed an ordinance dissolving all political connection with the government of the United States of America and the people thereof and confidently appeal to the intelligence and patriotism of the freemen of Texas to ratify the same at the ballot box, on the 23rd day of the present month.Adopted in Convention on the 2nd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one and of the independence of Texas the twenty-fifth.Question: Is it safe to say that if slavery had not existed that this document would not exist, that secession never would have happened and hence, no civil war? Without secession, there is no war; without slavery, there is no secession.If the answer is yes, then slavery (not states’ rights, economics, culture clash, and so forth) was the root cause of the Civil War. Without slavery, that war never happens—PERIOD, end of Story. Lincoln himself stated several times that slavery brought about the civil war. Just because he stated he did not seek to abolish slavery does not mean for a second that slavery was not the root cause. He had no authority to abolish it even though he despised it as an evil blemish upon the face of a free society. Why people just refuse to believe slavery was in fact the root cause is just to ignore the 1850s altogether. That decade clearly reveals that slavery brought on combat, violence, and war between North and South. There is no ambiguity to it, no opinion, just plain simple words from contemporaries. Who do I believe? Not me, not you , not revisionist hacks; I believe Lincoln, Jeff Davis, & Alexander Stephens, I believe the state conventions that voted for secession, I believe people who lived that history. What’s in your belief wallet??As a closing a remark, I offer an article I drafted on this subject.The Real Cause of the Civil War: Myth vs RealityProfessor Hank Beel – U.S. HistoryThe question of causation is vexing because depending on who one asks dictates the answer. Frame of reference is everything when interpreting history—the answer of Northern citizens contemporary to the war may differ from Union soldiers actually fighting the war; and then there is the pesky South where varying answers abound. History instructors across America confuse the matter further due to their lack of objective examination of cause and effect dynamics. It is reported that 65% -75% of all history teachers teach that the fundamental cause was States’ Rights (particularly strong in the South). For these people, slavery was not in fact the central cause but rather a conflict between federal authority versus state authority. Then there are those who embrace the Economic Rivalry Thesis that assert the war was due to an irrepressible conflict between the Northern industrialization capitalists and the resisting aristocracy of Southern agriculturalists—taxation, tariff, internal improvements, monetary policies, and general favoritism of the federal govt. to Northern capitalists. All of these antagonisms facilitated a longstanding rift and even hostile relations between North and South. Yes, indeed they all contributed to sectional crisis; but none of those things ignited a bloody civil war. Then there is the truth held by the truly discriminating of scholars who make searching for truth a virtual religion. The central cause of the Civil War was due to an irrepressible conflict with the socioeconomic, political, cultural, morality (to a lesser extent), and the philosophical ramifications of slavery within a free society brought to bear by territorial expansion.The first place to start is discerning myth from reality. For example, when asking many Northerners why the North fought the Civil War, their response is: to end the evil slavery. When asking many Southerners their response is resoundingly, “State’s rights.” Both are unequivocal myths! Nonetheless, Americans today and throughout history have embraced various myths and their conduct is sometimes rooted philosophically in and their actions predicated upon those myths. For Example: white supremacy; manifest destiny; slavocracy; white men are automatic racist bigots; conservatives are intolerant racists; outlawing guns will eradicate gun crimes; stopping illegal immigration is racist and a bad thing; govt is your best friend and answer to all problems; and many more. The fact is that all the antagonistic issues were resolved via compromise and none of those issues ignited combat nor would they ever do so. The only one issue that defied compromise and the only one to ignite combat was SLAVERY---period, end of story.It is also important to understand that while most Northerners were not abolitionists nor did they even care about slaves or slavery, and that Union soldiers were in fact fighting to suppress a rebellion and save the Union from internal destruction, and that Lincoln clearly asserted that the war aim was to preserve the Union and not end slavery, does not in anyway preclude that slavery was central reason for igniting a bloody civil war. Preserving the Union was not necessary until the South seceded; secession was not necessary if the South never had slavery. Secession was necessary to protect slavery and the Southern way of life—the South fought for Southern independence. Why did they need independence? Because their precious slavery was under siege and without slavery, the Old South ceases to exist. End of story.Why Slavery was in Fact the Central Cause:1. Because that is what contemporaries stated2. It was not slavery as a moral cause but rather as a political, economic, cultural, philosophical cause. North did not care about the plight of slaves and lost no sleep over slavery.3. Slavery was tied to state’s rights by default versus federal authority4. Slavery was not a national issue until westward expansion became a focal point. Expansion brought slavery into the forefront of national thought; all sectional antagonisms 1840s-1860 were started and finished with slavery arguments5. Extreme Paranoia of both sides fueled by abolitionists, slavocracy, and expansion directly rooted in SLAVERY.6. The lifeblood of the Old South—its culture, economics, politics, and its very existence was SLAVERY. Had slavery not existed, the Old South would not have existed, and thereby the extreme paranoia of both sides related to expansion of slavery or not to expand would not have existed. For example, the Kansas-Nebraska Act would not have happened; Bleeding Kansas never would have happened; the party system would not have been smashed; Dred Scott Decision never would have happened; Fugitive Slave Law never would have happened; John Brown Raid never would have happened; the Republican Party never would have been created; and secession would never have happened. Without secession there is no civil war. Without slavery, there is no secession.7. The Confederate president and vice president both asserted that slavery was the central cause8. Ten states that seceded, stated in their Declaration of Causes that slavery was the central issue. Remember, slavery was two things: an economic labor force but just as importantly, it was a social control component that was the glue to sustaining the Old South culture.Conclusion: SLAVERY WAS THE CENTRAL CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR