They continued to pay their taxes to the federal government.
The Civil War started with southerners firing on Fort Sumter. What was Fort Sumter? It was at the entrance to Charleston harbor to enforce collection of tariffs from ships entering the harbor.
Meanwhile, in March 1861, Congress passed the Corwin Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. The amendment would have made slavery permanent in the US, and taken away the ability to ever abolish it.
No, tariff enforcement was done at the Customs House in Charleston, near the docks. Ft. Sumter was built, at South Carolina's request, to protect the harbor from invasion after the War of 1812 showed the inadequacy of America's coastal defenses. Claiming that it had anything to do with tariff collection is simply false.
Meanwhile, in March 1861, Congress passed the Corwin Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. The amendment would have made slavery permanent in the US, and taken away the ability to ever abolish it.
Except as it had already been done up to that time, by the states. But maybe you think it should have been a federal matter and not one left to the states.
Not just pay taxes, but they did their bowing and scraping as well. They acknowledged the rule of those People in Washington.
Again I say, the bone of contention of the civil war was who would rule the south, not whether or not slavery continued to exist. The more numerous population of the Union states simply want their role in the invasion of the South to be noble, and not vile, and so they want to believe they were fighting for a higher cause, even though they weren't.
Meanwhile, in March 1861, Congress passed the Corwin Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. The amendment would have made slavery permanent in the US, and taken away the ability to ever abolish it.
I was not aware of that. Thanks for informing me. I have little doubt this was done as an effort to bring the Southern states back into the Union. Again, it demonstrates that the war wasn't fought over slavery, it was fought over Independence. The Pro-Independence side was defeated.