In the sharp assessment of Lysander Spooner, the Civil War was,. The above short list are superficial, imprecise, and inaccurate conclusions many draw about the Civil War because of ignorance and/or for failure to make careful and logical distinctions. It has been assumed that all pro-secessionists in America prior to the Civil War were also pro-slavery, however, not only were many pro-secessionists not pro-slavery, but many were actually staunch abolitionists. The relevant statement read,Resolved, That the Abolitionists of this country should make it one of the primary objects of this agitation to dissolve the American Union. The anti-slavery disunionists and the abolitionists were some of the most critical of slavery and the most serious about ending it.