as the slaveholders never comprised more than 6% of southerners and their documents were NOT official documents, hardly anyone, north or south,either read them or cared what they said, an intelligent person must conclude that the cited documents were UNimportant to the causes of the war for dixie freedom. may i suggest that you do a search of my previous posts last year, to see the comments of academics, who are experts in this particuliar field.
i'm not inclined to retype all that data again.
in point of fact, the so-called "causes of secession" were "discovered" in the 1960s by the most hatefilled, arrogant & south-HATING revisionists out of the poison-ivy league.
in TRUTH, there was no discovery, as knowledgeable scholars had known about the documents for 130 years and DISMISSED them as the rantings of a few slaveholders.
such dismissal by scholars was CORRECT, imVho. had the few slavers published "mary had a little lamb", it would have been just as important to an understanding of the causes of TWBTS.
free dixie,sw
The Pareto Principle has a significant few, and an insignificant many. The Declaration of Independence is, I suppose to your mind the ravings of an insignificant few. I hold it is not so. I hold that the representitive governments of the south had been hijacked by the slave holders. I hold that the representative governments of the south wrote those documents as the best face they could put on their actions. I hold that those same slave holders drafted the non-slave holders into the militia, and called out the militia to defend their plutocracy.
Again, I have alwasy been surprised that R.E. Lee would have anything to do with the anti-democratic (small d) plutocrats, but then again, he was married to one.
I don't call you a liar, just sadly misled.