[DarkSavant]

I would implore you to educate yourself by reading the readily available reasons for secession posted at the time by the seceding states. Therein they make quite clear the primacy of slavery and Northern attitudes toward the institution as their reason for separating.

Yes. It was about the State's right to secede, for whatever reason.

[Gunslingr3]

Yes. It was about the State's right to secede, for whatever reason.

It was for a very particular reason in their instance, one which they weren't shy in expressing. Alas, Providence did not smile on their designs, and understandably.

Secession to secure the fruits of liberty is not politically analogous to secession in order to secure the power to enslave other human beings. The ends are not ennobled by the means.