[BroJoeK]

PeaRidge: "You presented two points in your post 327...both wrong."

Both correct.

PeaRidge: "You started the discussion about documents concerning the "reasons for secession" by referring to unofficial statements which were copies of speeches.
Interesting reading but of no official value."

Read them again, more carefully.
You'll see that all four "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession from the Federal Union" are official documents adopted at their respective secession conventions:

1. South Carolina
2. Mississippi
3. Georgia
4. Texas

PeaRidge: "None of the original 7 ordinances mentioned slavery as a cause of their decision to leave the Union."

Those Ordinances of Secession themselves generally provided no reasons.
Reasons were provided, however, in the four Declarations of Reasons for Secession. See above.

PeaRidge: "Your comments regarding the tariff are uninformed well informed and wrong correct."

There, fixed it for you.
Yes, you're welcome, glad I could help!

;-)

[PeaRidge]

Here is your exact comment from #310: “First of all, if you think the Morrill Tariff had anything to do with Deep South declarations of secession, then I'd challenge you to quote any of their Declarations of Reasons for Secession which say as much.”

You set up a strawman argument by suggesting that a set of unofficial documents proved anything more being commentary.

And the point is that secession had its own causes, but Lincoln's invasion had its causes also....quite different from each other.

Go ahead and quote what you want but exclusion proves nothing.