Morrill Tariff and the Radical Republican (Whig) platform of Clay and Lincoln.
Remember we seceeded from Great Britain, primarily over British Mercantilism.
The South was seceeding from Northern or American Mercantilism. The same Mercantilistic system that still plagues our nation today.
The Republicans were also plotting openly to overturn Supreme Court rulings, in Lincoln's 1858 "House Divided" speech. And Lincoln likewise did overturn all such rulings in his First Inaugural Address, claiming that the Supreme Court had no power other than in individual cases that came before it-- not any precedents for later cases! This effectively mounted a coup that overturned the entire history of legal jurisprudence in the American system of justice, i.e. that case-law set a binding precedent for all lower courts-- and likewise habeas corpus, i.e. that a person cannot be arrested for laws that are ruled [I]invalid [/I]by the court.
Lincoln defended this usurpation by arguing that "if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
However, here he appointed himself and (the Republican) Congress as [I]speaking [/I]for "the people--" while likewise claiming to be the voice of Constitutional limitations on them.
In short, the Republicans usurped everything short of the elective process itself-- and even that was compromised by their suspension of Habeas Corpus, including the censorship via imprisonment without trial of over 20,000 journalist and closing of 300 opposition-presses-- and the intimidation of countless others; in short, neither elections nor speech were "free" under Republican rule (any more than under other despots claiming to be "democratically elected," but who won through intimidation and/or [I]worse[/I] of anyone caught speaking or voting against the reigning tyrant). Even those who failed to praise Lincoln loudly enough, were often imprisoned without trial-- and often tortured as well.
Likewise, "war" was not an acceptable excuse for such-- but was merely an incentive for the despotic regime to [I]declare[/I] war in order to claim such.
Once the Republicans won the war and attained their long-sought empire, the 1866 Supreme Court immediately declared the Republican suspensions of habeas corpus to be wholly illegal-- but this was fully 5 years too late, since the empire had been achieved, and state sovereignty wholly decimated beyond recall to date.
south carolina was tired of footing the bill for the norths industrialization. taxes and tariffs paid for there railroads, bridges, canals, etc. south carolina didn't need these things as the rivers flow west to east toward the major ports. we also didn't like the yankee accent because it hurt our ears. when they visited south carolina we had to wear rubber boots to wade through all the bull@#it they spouted forth. who would want to stay with a bunch of losers like that?
"For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction."
Why did South Carolina want to break from the Union?
One reason is the state government which was a piece of the union which was created by the united states. Had a reason to defend their homeland when Lincoln had reinforcements sent to Fort Sumter. The Local government wanted to reclaim federal forts on their land and I believe they had legal right to do. The Union was formed by a friendly compact, not a forced hand. But the Union was formed to fend off foreign invaders and when the South Carolinian gov't acted first It gave reason and the Ok for Lincoln to fire back. Although invading ones own country doesn't mesh with the constitution and gave the Sectioned South right to defend their best interests according to their states wishes.
One reason is the state government which was a piece of the union which was created by the united states.
Nope, states created the Union of states, no state did not first have a state constition and elected representatives that applied then to become members of the Union, either going in as terr or as full states themselves, like Texas.
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Had a reason to defend their homeland when Lincoln had reinforcements sent to Fort Sumter. The Local government wanted to reclaim federal forts on their land and I believe they had legal right to do. The Union was formed by a friendly compact, not a forced hand. But the Union was formed to fend off foreign invaders and when the South Carolinian gov't acted first It gave reason and the Ok for Lincoln to fire back.
States cannot be forgien powers while inh the Union. The only invasion was when federal foces entered states aginst the express wish of the government and the people of that state. Even Lincoln knew that was ilegal and an invasion, he told the world that in 1860.
Indiana State legislature on 12 February 1861: "What is 'invasion'? Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward them be 'invasion'? I certainly think it would, and it would be 'coercion' also if South Carolinians were forced to submit."
Lincoln, address to the Indiana State Legislature on 12 February 1861; in Harper's Weekly, 23 February 1861, page 119; Greeley, American Conflict, Volume I, page 419
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Although invading ones own country doesn't mesh with the constitution and gave the Sectioned South right to defend their best interests according to their states wishes.
Those states were no longer in the Union from one POV, and still in it and protected by the constition from invasion to coerce a state against its will on the other POV, secoond to that the oath of layaolty for politgicval and mil persons was changed to include the word domstic for the first time in late 61, as prior to then states had first claim on the oaths offoce of both.
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