[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The timing of the war in relation to outside politic events, not to mention the very slavery-specific resolutions of secession adopted by most of the seceding states, point to slavery as the central issue.

Blankenship wasn't going to be able to undue those tariffs anyway even if he had won.

[scrabblehack]

Nreckinridge?

[DiogenesLamp]

The timing of the war in relation to outside politic events, not to mention the very slavery-specific resolutions of secession adopted by most of the seceding states,

Three or four out of 11 states issued slavery specific reasons. Virginia said they were leaving because the Federal government had become a tyrannical power intent upon forcing subjugation on others.

For some reason, nobody ever wants to cite the most important state of Virginia, they prefer to cite much less significant states.

point to slavery as the central issue.

Well Paul Craig Roberts (Nationally syndicated columnist) puts forth a very interesting explanation for why some of the Southern states asserted slavery as a cause for separation.

His argument in a nutshells is this. The refusal of Northern states to return fugitive slaves was a clear violation of the Constitutional requirement to do so. It equated to a "breach of contract" by the Northern states against the Southern states, and therefore was a valid legal argument to justify getting out of the contract.

Their real complaint was the 200 million per year in their annual trade value being under Northern control where 60% of the money was kept by the Northeast and Washington DC.

But because the Constitution clearly gives congress the authority to set taxes, there was no legal remedy for the problem, and it could not serve as a valid legal argument to get out of the contract.