Bubba Ho-Tep:
"Five states issued Declarations of Causes, and one is hard pressed to find anything but slavery as the issue in any of them."DiogenesLamp: "What five?
I've read them all, and I only recall a few that stated slavery was the reason."
Please see my post #355 above for a complete listing of the five original state's documents, two letters to slaveholding states -- Rhett & Stephens -- and the two original secession states which issued no such documents.
The post links to all seven documents and you can see for yourselves that every one features slavery importantly if not exclusively.
None failed to mention slavery.
Also note the link to a nice article quantifying the focus of those pre-Sumter Reasons for Secession:
- Mississippi: 93% context & slavery
- Georgia: 81% context & slavery
- Texas: 79% context & slavery
- South Carolina: 61% context & slavery
Add Alabama's Ordinance of Secession which discusses only slavery, plus Rhett's letter and Stephen's "Corner Stone" speech and none of the seven documents fails to mention slavery prominently, if not exclusively.
Belated ping for my post #381 above.
Since DiogenesLamp is incapable of rational thought on this subject, that post is intended for you. :-)