[cowboyway]

No, slavery was the cause of southern secession.

I guess you firmly believe that the cause of the Revolutionary War was the right of the people to drink tax free tea.

The people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the constitution of the United States by the federal government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the states, fully justified this state in then withdrawing from the Federal Union;

[pprimeau1976]

I guess you firmly believe that the cause of the Revolutionary War was the right of the people to drink tax free tea.

No, that wasn't the reason, but you are sidestepping. The excessive taxes were amongst a number of unjust practices by the British. Let's fast forward 80+ years to Southern secession

Your blurb from South Carolina's declaration says that the federal governments' "encroachment upon the reserved rights of the states" justified them in withdrawing. So what reserved rights were they speaking of? Wasn't the big one the right to determine for themselves whether to allow slavery? In fact, wasn't it really the only right they were concerned with?