On May 1, 1833, Andrew Jackson wrote, "the tariff was only
Posted on: May 1, 2017 at 16:04:55 CT
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the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question."
What does this mean to you? To me, Jackson clearly states that the longstanding objective of the Southern States was to secede from the Union and they would use any pretext they could to achieve that desire. He predicted (accurately) that the next pretext would be slavery.