Causes of secession: Florida

Unlike many of the other southern states who sought to leave the US, Florida did not publish a document setting out the reasons for their declaration of secession. However, a draft document was found in the state archives, which apparently reads as follows: The Congressional halls where the members should meet with fraternal feelings, a just regard for the interests of all the States there represented and respect for the feelings of all its members has been prostituted to the daily denunciation and vituperation of the slave holding States as sanctioning oppression robbery and all villainies, thus subjecting the members from these States to the degradation of gross and constantly repeated insults, and compelling the exclusion from our public press of the debates of our national Legislature or the circulation of the most incendiary matter.