Been Quote by Jim Webb
“Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in the North before the war - just as overt patriotism is today - but it was tempered by a strong belief that state sovereignty existed prior to the Constitution and that it had never been surrendered.”
![“[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.” quote by G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f2/g-edward-griffin-9084_accepted_it-is-generally-accepted-that-the-civil_1542726.jpg)
