If the slave issue was secondary is seems weird that so many of the states explicitly mentioned it: >"Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 186

If the slave issue was secondary is seems weird that so many of the states explicitly mentioned it: >"Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, the seven states that would constitute the future Confederate States of America before Fort Sumter was bombarded began the process of seceding from the Union. Those states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. All of them formed "conventions of the people" to adopt ordinances severing the tie with the Union. (2) Five of them--South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and Texas--commissioned delegates to their respective conventions to draft public documents detailing the reasons behind the secession. (3) Historians call these documents "declarations of causes," a phrase used in the titles of several of these documents. Although, for reasons unknown, Florida never officially completed its declaration, a draft of it exists in the Florida state archives. All of the declarations are explicit: maintaining slavery was the reason for secession. For example, the Mississippi declaration begins, "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery--the greatest material interest of the world." https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+cause+of+the+civil+war+according+to+confederate+leaders.-a0472268541 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+cause+of+the+civil+war+ac...