[marron]

Good grief. Read the various articles of secession where the states lay out their reasons for seceding. Tariffs get hardly a mention.

They are very clear. It is, not just about slavery, but the right to spread slavery to the western states. The American West was the prize.

[Robert DeLong]

You are wrong, & you are misreading those articles. The issue of slavery was becoming more of an issue, but it was because the elimination of slavery heaped upon the already burdensome taxation through tariffs that was the straw to break the camel's back so to speak. It was in effect a rejection of the transfer of wealth obtained by southern states to the northern states, which is exactly what happened when slavery was abolished.

Not saying I support slavery because I don't. It was an economic issue that caused the Civil War. If the Federal Government had offered to compensate the money invested in slavery to free the slaves in a fair & equitable manner, then succession & Civil War could have been avoided completely.

The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States