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Here are the Articles of Secession by 4 different southern states, and they all state quite clearly and emphatically that they are seceding to defend slavery.

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html'>http://www.civilwar....onofcauses.html</a>


Georgia:


"The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property...


Mississippi:


"In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.


Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth."


South Carolina:


"We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. 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; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection."


Texas:


"Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association."



Here are the words of Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy.

<a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech'>https://en.wikipedia...nerstone_Speech</a>


"Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."


So, yes, the South did secede to defend the institution of slavery. THEY SAID SO THEMSELVES!

See the problem you are having is you only focusing on the part they exclicity stated was their reason. Not the other reasons. You good ones. The ones aren't completely racist and dispicable in nature. Just like if you just ignore the whole mass genocide thing you will see Hitler's war mongering ways helped to bring about the space age!!!!

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