Bryan on Nostr: This is a bad take. The southern states at the time of succession wrote that slavery ...

This is a bad take. The southern states at the time of succession wrote that slavery was a primary reason.

South Carolina declaration of causes: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp

Quoting from it:

"Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery."

"A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery."

"It has announced that the South shall be excluded from the common territory, that the judicial tribunals shall be made sectional, and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States."