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<blockquote data-quote="Alan" data-source="post: 219207" data-attributes="member: 12333"><p>I think if you read the Declaration of Immediate Causes of the secession of South Carolina you cannot but see that slavery was an overwhelming reason for SC to leave the Union. The Dred Scott case had gone their way in 1857 but Lincoln was hated and they feared what his presidency would do. Here is a small excerpt:</p><p></p><p>In the present case, that fact is established with certainty. We assert that fourteen of the States have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own Statutes for the proof.</p><p>The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: “No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.”</p><p></p><p>For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and <strong>purposes are hostile to slavery.</strong> He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that <strong>slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.</strong></p><p></p><p>You can read the whole document here. Hard to say they were not arguing about the "States Right to Slavery" and not the economy.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp" target="_blank">Avalon Project - Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan, post: 219207, member: 12333"] I think if you read the Declaration of Immediate Causes of the secession of South Carolina you cannot but see that slavery was an overwhelming reason for SC to leave the Union. The Dred Scott case had gone their way in 1857 but Lincoln was hated and they feared what his presidency would do. Here is a small excerpt: In the present case, that fact is established with certainty. We assert that fourteen of the States have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own Statutes for the proof. The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: “No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and [B]purposes are hostile to slavery.[/B] He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that [B]slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.[/B] You can read the whole document here. Hard to say they were not arguing about the "States Right to Slavery" and not the economy. [url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp]Avalon Project - Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union[/url] [/QUOTE]
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