Maybe this is what you want. Let me know.
With regards to secession conventions, there were a total of 12 state legislatures or conventions, 1 rump state convention (Kentucky), 1 territorial convention (Arizona), and 2 Indian tribes that published one or more secession documents of some sort during the civil war. In total they published at least 21 documents declaring or otherwise affirming their secession. 12 were ordinances officiating the secession act itself adopted by the 12 state conventions, legislatures, or popular referendum. The conventions of 4 of those 12 states adopted an additional “Declaration of Causes” as a nonbinding legislative resolution. The convention of South Carolina also adopted a letter of causes addressed to all the other southern states outlining why they were seceding and urging others to join them (interestingly enough half that document is a list of grievances against the north for tax hikes and tariffs).
Out of the 21 total declarations, ordinances, and other secession documents only 6 mention slavery in any context beyond a geographical reference (and only 5 of them mention it at substantial length - the sixth is in a single brief clause). 14 of those documents specify other causes, either in addition to slavery (as in the 6) or without mentioning it at all. The remaining 7 do not list any causes.
204 posted on 12/30/2004 12:45:16 AM EST by GOPcapitalist
If that is not it, it is close enough for my purposes. Thanks.
I have been unable to find a document which lists grievances about tax hikes and tariffs. Do you have a source for this?
Thanks for posting that. I’ve been going through my archive ofposts. I was surprised to find that I didn’t save that post or similar ones by GOPcap. He used to post a table of them by state.