[Bubba Ho-Tep]

But, it's incomplete. "Internal improvements" were a continual rub to those same Southerners and that brings us to the tariffs. When you include all of these things the picture becomes more complete. If slavery had been the sole motivation for the Southern states, they probably would have accepted the Corwin Amendment and moved on with their lives.

And yet looking at the statements of secessionist political leaders, the various declarations of causes, and so on, "internal improvements" hardly merit a mention and tariffs not much more. The threat that they perceived to slavery is all through them, though. The South Carolina appeal to the other southern states to join them in secession isn't addressed to the "Internal improvement opposing states" or the "Low tariff-favoring states." No, it's to the "Slave-holding States."

Corwin wasn't enough for the southern states--they wanted expansion into new territories, which is why Crittenden was proposed.

[southernsunshine]

And yet looking at the statements of secessionist political leaders, the various declarations of causes, and so on, "internal improvements" hardly merit a mention and tariffs not much more.

Yet, they were mentioned. Hmmmm. Are you trying to insinuate that "internal improvements" and tarrifs weren't, and had not been, an issue with the Southern states?

The South Carolina appeal to the other southern states to join them in secession isn't addressed to the "Internal improvement opposing states" or the "Low tariff-favoring states." No, it's to the "Slave-holding States."

So?

Corwin wasn't enough for the southern states--they wanted expansion into new territories, which is why Crittenden was proposed.

Yet, Lincoln's offering was the Corwin Amendment, no? Too little, too late.