Of course you do.
You ignore what they actually said and did at the time because you think that your deductions from your own ideas are of more value than inductions based on the evidence.
Paul Craig Roberts, who wrote the article, also comes very close to being a Holocaust denier. He's not to be trusted.
Uh, this wasn't my own deduction. This deduction came from Paul Craig Roberts. Also, this does not ignore what they actually said. It very strongly incorporates what they actually said as the supporting evidence for the entire premise.
Paul Craig Roberts, who wrote the article, also comes very close to being a Holocaust denier. He's not to be trusted.
I think i've heard of him before, but I can't recall reading anything else that he's ever wrote. He's not like Victor Davis Hanson, or Ann Coulter, or Kurt Schlichter, or any other famous writer on the right.
So you didn't find his explanation interesting or relevant? Okay then.
That is a very sleazy aspersion. Paul Craig Roberts, PhD, was the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan.
So who do we believe: some anonymous aspersion-slinger who goes by the name of "x", or Dr. Paul Craig Roberts of the Reagan administration? Tough choice . . .
This is Dr. Roberts:
"[T]he reason for which the Southern states were seceding was the tariff, but the Constitution gave the federal government the right to levy a tariff. Therefore, the Southern states could not cite the tariff as a breach of the Constitutional fabric.
"Slavery was the only issue that the South could use to make a legal case that it was not in rebellion. Article 4 of the US Constitution reads: 'No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.' In defiance of Article 4, some Northern states had passed laws that nullified the Fugitive Slave Act and other laws that upheld this article of the Constitution. The South used these nullification laws to make its case that Northern states had broken the Constitutional contract, thus justifying the Southern states secession."
[Paul Craig Roberts, "A 'Civil War' Lesson for the Uneducated." The Burning Platform, Nov 14, 2018]
The historical literature is loaded with support for Dr. Robert's assertion that the tariff was the precipitator of the Secession. Perhaps in the future you will strive to defend your position with something other than low-class slander.
Mr. Kalamata