[lentulusgracchus]

But rather, slavery was the overriding issue - to the degree that in none of the secessionist documents actually voted on by southerners did tariffs and taxation actually appear.

Why is that point important to you? Speak, O Bandersnatch!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Simply because many are trying to prove that the South secceded over tariffs and taxation rather than slavery.  It's funny that they would say this since the confederate documentation of the time indicates the reverse.

It's a shame in a way that this revisionism is being rammed down our throats, because many who are sympathetic to southerners in their current fight with the PC world are turned off by such tactics.