RE: On liberty, Confederate monuments, and the Confederacy in general
My understanding is that the South was paying a much larger percentage of the overall taxes in the nation, and that most of that money was used in the North. This had been going on for years, and was something the Southern people were frustrated about, especially since they did not vote for these taxes. The slavery debate was just the straw that broke the camel's back. If true, this seems like a pretty legitimate reason to want to leave the nation to me. Is this inaccurate information?
You link to the differences in the two constitutions and say the only significant change was the addition of the line about slavery. I read through the link and it seems to me that there were a ton of significant changes not related to slavery. Even if it were accurate that the only significant change in the constitution was about slavery, simply separating from a country which was exploiting you is standing up for state's rights if you had been resisting unfair treatment for years to no avail. Do you disagree?
Other issues that may have contributed to the secession does not change the fact that slavery was ingrained into the political identity of the Confederacy. (And at any rate, why didn't the South just use its disproportionate representation in Congress (due to the three-fifths compromise) to mitigate those taxes?)
Not what I said at all. I just said the two constitutions are largely identical.
I do not disagree. But again, that's immaterial to the slavery issue.