re: #215 kirkspencer
This, of all the things mentioned, is actually in the South Carolina Declaration that explains their decision to secede.
I’d like to say it all boils down to slavery. But in reality it’s the Tea Party excuse: “We have the right to do what we want and you (the federal government and the other states) have to let us do it even if you do outnumber us.” In this case what they wanted was slaves.
Hell, better yet, what does it accuse the North of doing that pushed it into leaving the Union? Oh, right, passing laws to nullify federal laws in part or toto. In short, the sort of shit that the “states rights” crowd argues today is their only means of preventing “federal overreach” were the reasons cited by the South as motivation for their secession.