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Yeah, that and that whole being against the expansion of slavery and "a house divided against itself cannot stand" thingy.The Constitution does not have to spell out the powers of the states for them to be legitimate powers of the states. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution says this. Since the Constitution does not prohibit the states from seceding, they have the right to secede.
It has much to do with the discussion. It proves that slavery couldn't have been the only issue on the table since the Union had slave states.
Slavery was a reason for secession. Lincoln's promise of higher tariffs was another reason.
Tariffs had been going down under the political pressure the southern States were able to wield in Congress.
Tariffs had damned little to do with causing the warbut the slavers insistence that they had to expand slavery into the territories most certainly did.
Vile motherfucking slavers.
They should all have been hanged
Yet Lincoln ran on a platform of higher tariffs which, as I've said before, is why he had no support in the south but high support in northern states like Pennsylvania.