I had a qoute that I didn't get a chance to use that demonstrates the impossibility to stop slavery early on..
"The causes of the war will be found at the foundation of our political fabric, in our complex organism, in the fundamental law, in the Constitution itself, in the conflicting constructions which it invted, and in the institution of slavery...Slavery was undoubtedly the immediate formenting cause of the woeful American conflict. It was the great political factor around which the passions of the sections had been long gathered--the tallest pine in the political forest around whose top the fiercest lightnings were to blaze and whose trunk was destined to be shivered in the earthquake shocks of war." -John B. Gordon, Maj. Gen. CSA, "Reminiscences of the Civil War."
As Gordon stated, slavery could not have been avoided or addressed, which was the one main factor in causing the war. Since the founding of America, slavery was needed and depended, especially when the cotton gin was invented.
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I agree with Kelly, even if the Nullification Crisis after the Tariff of 1828 seemed like an economic conflict.
But since I did not get to finish what I wanted to say about South Carolina Threatening to secede, I am saying what I though on blog.
The Nullification Issue in 1832 [if you can recall the documents used earlier from the Daily National Intelligencer] was a precursor to secession and disunifincation. Although it did not relate directly to the issue of slavery and the Missouri Compromise of 1820, it was the "straw that broke the camel's back" and showed the inevitability of the creation of the Confederacy, which is what I was discussing. A quote from the article helps support this: "The separation of South Carolina would inevitably produce a general dissolution of the Union, and, as a necessary consequence, the protecting system, with all its pecuniary bounties to the Northern states, and its pecuniary burdens upon the Southern states, would be utterly overthrow and demolished, involving the ruin of thousands and hundreds of thousands in the manufacturing states..."
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