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Funny, there's no mention of northern mercantalist interests in the Declaration of Causes that South Carolina's Secession Convention issued, but lots of talk about slavery.

That don't mean there weren't others. My ex-wife had dozens of complaints about me, but only choose to list one in the divorce papers. And her name was even misspelled. 8^)

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That don't mean there weren't others.

Hey, I'll happily concede that sectional tensions had been brewing a long time. But the immediate cause was Lincoln's election and the threat to slave property rights that it was believed he posed.

If your wife only listed one complaint on your divorce papers, I"d feel pretty safe in saying that's the one that was really p***ing her off at the time. But that's just me.