“We prefer, however, our system of industry, by which labor and capital are identified in interest, and capital, therefore, protects labor—by which our population doubles every twenty years—by which starvation is unknown, and abundance crowns the land-by which order is preserved by an unpaid police, and many fertile regions of the world, where the white man cannot labor, are brought into usefulness by the labor of the African, and the whole world is blessed by our productions. All we demand of other peoples is, to be let alone, to work out our own high destinies. United together, and we must be the most independent, as we are among the most important of the nations of the world United together, and we require no other instrument to conquer peace, than our beneficent productions. United together, and we must be a great, free and prosperous people, whose renown must spread throughout the civilized world, and pass down, we trust, to the remotest ages. We ask you to join us, in forming a Confederacy of Slaveholding States.”
Is that another one of those pesky quotes that supports Yankee propaganda?
Looks like it to me. When you highlight that over the rest of the document, it’s just propaganda. The dominant theme is that the North was taxing them excessively, destroying their domestic industries (like shipbuilding) through the power of law, and treating them as a second class citizens because they had insufficient representation to protect their own interests.