g5000
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You didn't read them, did you. It shows.Now how about reading the actual declarations of secession. I think three states mentioned 'other slave owning states' but not one otherwise mentioned slavery or that preserving slavery was their primary grievance if a grievance of all.
Secession Acts of the Thirteen Confederate States
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Georgia: For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property
Their entire complaint is about the direct connection between "states rights" and slavery.
Mississippi: Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world.
South Carolina: The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy.
Texas: Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.
Virginia: The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under the said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States, and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression; and the Federal Government, having perverted said powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States.