[DoodleDawg]

And a lot of them didn't.

Well, one anyway. And yet when the state of South Carolina issued their formal declaration of their reasons for secession slave, slaves or slavery is mentioned 18 times; tax is mentioned once, and tariffs not at all. I guess they discarded that crank Rhett's opinions as not being accurate?

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[DiogenesLamp]

Their focus seemed to be on how the Northern states were refusing to abide by the Constitutional agreement, and how they have deliberately thrown up many roadblocks to what had been up to then normal recognition of the immunities and privileges of the various states.

In other words, many of the Northern states were attempting to change the constitution without going through the actual amendment process.