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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The successionist arguments were about new states, who gets the west essentially, not about the south, the North didnt need cotton and New Orleans, they wanted Kansas and Ohio (the frontier at the time) and the promise of Gold in the Rockies and the great plains
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Yes, it was also about precedence. If the southern states could secede, why couldn't say New York in the future. The republic would have fallen apart.