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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5787825" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/reasons-secession[/URL]</p><p></p><p>“Each declaration makes the defense of slavery a clear objective.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mississippi: </strong><em>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… These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Texas: </strong><em>The servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>South Carolina: </strong><em>Those [Union] States have assumed 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.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Georgia: </strong><em>That reason was [the North's] fixed purpose to limit, restrain, and finally abolish slavery in the States where it exists. The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity.”</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5787825, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/reasons-secession[/URL] “Each declaration makes the defense of slavery a clear objective. [B]Mississippi: [/B][I]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… These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.[/I] [B]Texas: [/B][I]The servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations.[/I] [B]South Carolina: [/B][I]Those [Union] States have assumed 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.[/I] [B]Georgia: [/B][I]That reason was [the North's] fixed purpose to limit, restrain, and finally abolish slavery in the States where it exists. The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity.”[/I] [/QUOTE]
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