"The documents you referred to were publications of the same value as newspaper accounts, not official statements of governance."
This web site claims, for example:
Copied by Justin Sanders from the Official Records, Ser IV, vol 1, pp. 81-85.
For another example, at the end of the South Carolina Declaration we see the following:
"Adopted December 24, 1860
"[Committee signatures]"
So, how is this not "official"?
I'd be curious to learn in what sense these are not "official records," or how they do not reflect the "real reasons" of those officials at that time.
In other words, if these were not the "real reasons," then where are the documents which tell what are?