George, please your own posts:

You quote me:

"To me, the most remarkable feature of this editorial, and the many many many others like it, as well as the actual articles of secession, is how they SELF IDENTIFY, themselves and their cause. "We the Slave-holding States, do join with our sister Slave-holding States, to create a Southern Confederacy of Slave-holding States" etc. etc.

They do not call themselves, the Tariff-hating States or the the Legion of States-Rights States, or the Anti-federalist States of the South, or any number of possibilities. They almost always call themselves the "Slave-holders". To me, self-identity is the most important feature, it is not Northern spin or propaganda."

Then you demand:
" IN THE SECESSION DOCUMENTS posted below where anything near this statement amke by JAKEo is implied. "

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Here are the facts, one more time:

As anyone can clearly see for themselves, in my original post I say to BB:

" To me, the most remarkable feature of THIS EDIORIAL...."

And, here, for everyone's reading pleasure, for the sixth time, is THIS EDITORIAL:

" In 1860 South Carolina seceded alone from the old union of States. Her people, in Convention assembled, invited the SLAVEHOLDING STATES (none others) of the old Union to join her in erecting a separate GOVERNMENT OF SLAVE STATES, for the protection of their common interests. All of the SLAVE STATES, with the exception of Maryland and Kentucky, responded to her invitation. The SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY OF SLAVES STATES was formed. "