Without these hard workers you would never be able to do all the work yourself. Keep in mind that your plantation contributes to fifty-seven percent of your country's exports. Now, acknowledging this information consider this, your government decided to establish a high paying tariff to the countries you wanted to trade with. Based on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, we believe that Southern states had legitament reasons to attempt succession from the United States. The Declaration of Independence was ratified in 1776, which clearly stated that people set up governments to protect their basic rights.
Governments get their power from the individuals they govern.
When John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman and Thomas Jefferson, signed the Declaration of Independence, they agreed that all states ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved from all alliances to the British Crown. In addition, all political connections between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. All free and independent states have the full power to levy war conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce and to do all other acts and things which independent states may have the right to do. These gentlemen agreed to support the Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence and each agreed to mutually pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Which means under the Declaration of Independence the Southern states had full rights to succeed from their union.