We could spend years, as some historians have, debating the motivations of the leaders of the various states that seceded from the Union. Instead, why not read and think about what they wrote at that time in the various declarations of secession? And you might start by answering the question I posed in my last post.
What I’m trying to identify are those acts of tyranny that you claim provoked the Southern secession. I know all the excuses that the South gave for their actions. I’m trying to understand the oppressive or unjustly severe conditions that the South was laboring under. The arbitrary acts of a cruel government which they had no say in. All the actions which define a tyranny, and I’m afraid I can’t find them.
I have - all of them. And I've compared them to the Declaration of Independence as a sort of benchmark since so many lost causers attempt to apply that in an analogous way to their insurrection. They all come up short and they all seem contrived - with the exception of those which told the honest truth - that they were quitting over slavery.
The plain, unvarnished truth is that, although there was friction and strife, there was no tyranny.