[DoodleDawg]

3. To disguise their real reason for doing it because that would have provoked an overwhelming desire to stop them.

So their cause was based on a lie? Good to know.

[DiogenesLamp]

A bon chat, bon rat.

[FLT-bird]

Their reasoning was that the Northern states had broken the compact. They were right about that. It wasn’t why they were actually leaving but they were right in saying it.