[Gianni]

I guess people are free to follow your link and read for themselves the paragraphs dedicated to protectionism, subsidiaries for Northern business, disproportionate tax burden, and denial of rights in the territories.

In the future, don't be surprised if everything you read after running a "grep doc 'slavery'" focuses on slavery.

[Non-Sequitur]

I guess people are free to follow your link and read for themselves the paragraphs dedicated to protectionism, subsidiaries for Northern business, disproportionate tax burden, and denial of rights in the territories.

Damn those subsidiaries anyway.

[CobaltBlue]

Actually the part about the Northern tariffs is probably the most damning to your argument from a historical perspective. The tariffs were imposed from the beginning of the Republic, yet the South did not secede.

It was not until the election of Lincoln as first President of the newly formed Republican party, the anti-slavery party, that they seceded. They were willing to endure tariffs for decades, but Lincoln they were not willing to endure.