There, fixed it for you. Yank
Good job, central_va.
After the tariff standoff in 1833, Andrew Jackson wrote, "The tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question."
States rights was the cause; slavery was the occasion.
Dream on.
The REALITY will be as I wrote it and not what you hope or what you think I hope.
States rights was the cause; slavery was the occasion.
First of all, that doesn't follow. Jackson's saying that a move for Southern independence was the cause, not some idea of states rights within the union under the Constitution. Jackson didn't accept the theories of state sovereignty that the secessionists championed.
Secondly, Jackson was a slaveowner himself and therefore he was inclined to see slavery and race as pretexts, rather than as underlying reasons for Southern agitation. People who don't own other people might ask, just what it that the secessionists were so passionate about preserving or attaining, and come to the conclusion that it had a lot to do with slavery and race.
It is nice that you think that the tariff was a pretext, not a reason for secession, though. But why not quote Jackson further?
I have had a laborious task here, but Nullification is dead; and its actors and courtiers will only be remembered by the People to be execrated for their wicked designs to sever and destroy the only good Government on the globe, and that prosperity and happiness we enjoy over every other portion of the World. Haman's gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their Country in Civil War, and all the evils in its train, that they might reign and ride on its whirlwinds and direct the storm. The Free People of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom. Take care of your Nullifiers; you have them among you; let them meet with the indignant frowns of every man who loves his Country.