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The ordinances of secession are the legal instruments for secession - the actual formal bills - so while some are clear about the causes, some of them are just boilerplate "We out" kind of stuff. You can find other explanations from the seceding states, but the rest aren't so neatly grouped together, unfortunately.
Gotcha, I think I'm following. For anyone curious, this website seems like a helpful resource
https://civildiscourse-historyblog.com/blog/2018/6/30/secession-documents-alabama
That's the one for Alabama. The website seems to have all the related documents together for the different states that left the Union
So is the south Carolina document I read the "seperate document" alluded to in the Wikipedia page, or their ordinance of secession itself? If it's their ordinance of secession, what's the seperate document they published?
(If you don't know the answers or don't have the energy to try and explain everything to me that's fine, we're getting into the weeds lol)
The South Carolina link was a separate document - the Declaration of Immediate Causes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040404171724/http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/ordnces.html
South Carolina's ordinance of secession is pretty boilerplate
... while Virginia's cites slavery specifically in its ordinance.
Thank you so much for all the time and energy you put into helping me understand all the historical documents, I really appreciate it
I hope you have a lovely day today ❤️
Aw, thank you! I always enjoy being able to help out with what tidbits I know about the past!