I am not going to repost the documents issued by GA,SC,MS and TX explaining their reasoning for secession. You have read them. They go to great lengths to point out a perceived threat to slavery. Finances are barely mentioned in only two of those documents and not at all in the other two.
You may choose to ignore the written thoughts of the men responsible for secession and prefer the thoughts of men that had nothing to do with secession opining of issues decades before.
The way I read those documents, a strong belief, that in the future, Lincoln and the Republican, would act against slavery was the prime motivations for their actions.
People are always trying to make those few states that did issue secession statements asserting slavery as speaking for all the rest, and this is deliberately misleading.
The way I read those documents, a strong belief, that in the future, Lincoln and the Republican, would act against slavery was the prime motivations for their actions.
Slavery was as important to their economic output as oil is today to ours. From their perspective, it's not much different from the Crazy Californians declaring that all energy will come from renewables and that oil and gas will be prohibited.
The Crazy Liberal Californians do not grasp that such a change cannot be done quickly or easily, and so too was it the same for those who advocated the rapid abolition of that peculiar institution.
I think economic and social forces would have eventually eliminated it as happened in the other slave holding countries, but it would have taken decades for that to happen because too much of their economic output was powered by slavery.