Yes, I have. And yes, it was...for the recruits.
There weren't many young farmers or northern coal miners who EVER understood the ramifications of the Civil War, let alone what actually started it. Their eyes would have glazed over. So both the North and the South recruited using what governments use best...emotionalism.
The war itself was fought over politicians from the North wanting to create a NATIONAL debt. It was a very unfair proposal since the economies of the North and South were so vastly different. The South did NOT want to be forced to pay for the North's debts. When Lincoln held the Union by FORCE, he effectively cancelled out States' Rights because the FED trumps the state every time. Witness the medicinal marajuana law in CA and the assisted suicide law in ?Oregon.
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The leading spokesmen were largely state-centered men with regional and local interests and loyalties. Madison wrote, "The anti-Federalists attacked wildly on several fronts: the lack of a bill of rights, discrimination against southern states in navigation legislation, direct taxation, the loss of state sovereignty."
The statist pigs who haunt these threads will kick, scream, pout and dissemble but remember, Adams and Hummel are BOTH Northerners!
Indeed, an entire series of vital texts, if you want to avoid the disinformationist filter of the globalist cabal, is here.
Here are a couple of salient quotes that augment your 52 quite well; note the dates of each:
”Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail." -–Calhoun, 1831
"What was once a Constitutional Federal Republic, is now converted in reality into one as absolute as that of the autocrat of Russia, and as despotic in its tendency as any absolute government that ever existed." -- John C. Calhoun, Southern statesman and visionary in his last speech to Congress, 1850