Even if they did, which they do not (unless you get to pick out your own favorite phrases and present them robbed of context), the fact remains, that the genesis and evolution of the Nullification Crisis refutes your assertion that absent a slavery issue, there would have been no secession, no civil war.
The Morill Tariff had passed out of the house in spring of 1860 without a hint of rebellion.
So the House passed a bill hostile to the South -- but it didn't do it without a hint of secession! [Note: there was no rebellion.] Secession had been in the air ever since the North poured forth its tears on the grave of race-war fomenter John Brown, and cried out bitterly over his failure to instigate the slaughter of millions.
From that moment, the Union was dead.
It was what they saw as the threat to the expansion of slavery that caused their actions, not the tariff.
I don't have my cc. of Rhett's "Appeal" and the Texas Declaration handy, but your singular emphasis on "expansion of slavery" (Lincoln's platform chestnut) is misleading and, I think, wittingly so. It wasn't just slavery, it was everything, it was the future, it was the hostile domineering of Northern politicians, it was the hatred Northern political propagandists had whipped up in the Northern States against the South, in the course of building a sectional party not only capable of, but committed to, subjugating and helotizing the South.
Those documents make that apprehension clear.
bttt
Complete nonsense.
So the House passed a bill hostile to the South -- but it didn't do it without a hint of secession! [Note: there was no rebellion.]
Yes the House passed a tariff bill in the spring of 1860 without a hint of rebellion. [Note: there was no legal secession!]
Secession had been in the air ever since the North poured forth its tears on the grave of race-war fomenter John Brown, and cried out bitterly over his failure to instigate the slaughter of millions.
Again, complete nonsense.
I don't have my cc. of Rhett's "Appeal" and the Texas Declaration handy, but your singular emphasis on "expansion of slavery" (Lincoln's platform chestnut) is misleading and, I think, wittingly so.
Then by all means root around and dig them up. Add to them the Cornerstone Speech and the speeches of the various secession commissioners and you'll see just how slavery was the be all and end all of the Southern rebellion.