Use the excerpt from A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union to answer the question. Which statement BEST paraphrases Mississippi’s reason for secession? A. Northern attitudes about slavery undermine the principles on which the state was founded. B. Northern attempts to eradicate slavery represent a direct threat to the viability of the South. C. Northern lawmakers have repeatedly violated Southern rights without any clear cause or reason. D. Northern abolitionists have broken laws across the nation and unraveled the legal framework of the nation.
