Working Class Stiff posted this link to the piece about secession discussions on one of the threads mourning the loss of those murdered in Charleston, SC.
It is a great resource for the declaration as well as for a general history.
Here's hoping it it useful.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp
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