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You and others try desperately to bend and twist history to be something different than it was. It's pretty simple: the Civil War started because the South seceded, and the North said "No."
So the question is only why the South seceded. And I guess we can never know for certain, because it's not like we can get a prioritized list of reasons for secession from each state that seceded OH WAIT YES WE CAN.
Each state listed their causes for secession, and primary amongst their concerns was slavery, whether is was concern for Northerners eventually getting rid of slavery, or upset that slaves escaping to the North were not being returned, or even that some Northern states were abolishing slavery within their states.
Yes, some Northern states still benefitted from slavery at the time, and yes, Lincoln was prepared to grant slavery in perpetuity to the slave-holding states, so it's clear that the Northern states were not fighting to end slavery. However, that doesn't change the main two things that led to the Civil War:
The Southern states seceded to preserve slavery.
The Northern states said "No."