And yet they did not. The southern declarations of the causes of secession do not claim taxation without representation, failure to Assent to Laws, disolved legislatures, standing armies without consent of legislature, or sea plundering. They first and foremost talked about the threat that they saw to the institution of slavery. That was by far the single most important reason for the rebellion.
they were the PRIVATELY PUBLISHED ramblings/rantings of a SMALL group of elitist slave owners, who spoke for NOBODY but themselves.
few average southerners KNEW and or CARED what they thought/wrote/published.
free dixie,sw you KNOW this to be true!
your post is just another in a LONG line of damnyankee apologist LIES, distortions & outright fabrications that come from the most extreme, leftist/marxist school of northeastern elitist political thought.
Sure they did - just not in one single document. The secession speeches in Congress quoted directly from the declaration several times. Several of the secession ordinances mirrored its clauses individually. Even Ex Parte Merryman quoted from it in reference to Lincoln's replacement of the civil authority with the military.