[LexBaird]

‘Had the South done that what would they have had to secede over in the first place?’

States Rights, primarily.

States' "rights" to do what? Secede to prove they had the "right" to secede? The "right" not to abide by the results of an election they participated in? What "right" was burning so fervently besides the "right" to maintain slavery in the face of a Republican administration seeking to limit its expansion Westward?

[Badeye]

States Rights, primarily.

‘States’ “rights” to do what? Secede to prove they had the “right” to secede? The “right” not to abide by the results of an election they participated in? What “right” was burning so fervently besides the “right” to maintain slavery in the face of a Republican administration seeking to limit its expansion Westward?’

The North’s view of taxation as it applied to the Southern States was a key argument in this vein offered up by Southern orators of the day, and they had a very sound point in my view. Just one that comes to mind.