You didn't debunk ****. You danced around it, dismissed it as unimportant, when the fact is..tarriffs were the singlemost formidable reason for the seccession.
Hey, you may not like your car taxes, but you still pay them, right?
Understand that these were "real" men back then and they decided they had just about had enough of this ****, and when you came down to enforce the tarriffs, they attacked.
Lincoln stepped in and shut all government down, took complete control and pulled the country back together. Today, they'd say he overstepped his boundaries and he should have been impeached.
Liberal wingbats are funny like that. Always suits them, but they'd hang somebody else for exactly the same thing.