Your point is one engineered out of half truths to buttress your intended goal, that of excusing secession. The FACT is nearly EVERY southern state issued a secession statement and in those statements slavery is mentioned above all reasons. So, if you take the word of the ACTUAL people who seceded, and not that of lost cause apologists, you’d come to understand that slavery was the main (though not the only) reason the south left the union.
“The FACT is nearly EVERY southern state issued a secession statement and in those statements slavery is mentioned above all reasons.”
Not true, not true, not true.
Thirteen states had Acts or Articles of Secession. Of those thirteen only four even mentioned slavery (South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, and Georgia; Virginia just mentioned that it was in agreement with the slave states). Of the thirteen, eleven actually ratified their respective Acts or Articles of Secession.
No you just do not get it. Those so called Secession Declarations were just a political stunt used by a small slave owning elite that held sway over the politicians. They were simply trying to hop onto the secessionist bandwagon once they saw its star rising. The ACTUAL reason for secession was over the Morill Tariff which was bankrupting the south. The slave owners were initially OPPOSED to secession and wanted to remain in the Union as they had a better deal BUT they got nervous when they saw the south taking steps to secede and finally decided to get on board as a matter of self interest. They simply did not want to find themselves in the same position as the north.
The “official” version of history is often based on lies that were authored by the victors. It was certainly no different in this case. The slave owners did not even want to secede! It was the average NON-SLAVE OWNING impoverished Southron spurred on by the North’s oppressive tariffs that was the main cause of secession. The slave owners and their politicians were just opportunists.
The tariffs caused the problem not the slave topic.