Well I asked for examples of the tyranny that you said caused the Southern states to secede and you respond with actions by individual states, all of which I believe were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. So if we can agree that an accurate definition of tyranny is “cruel and oppressive government or rule” then can you tell me exactly what tyranny the South was trying to flee?
Don’t you think that the failure of fourteen states to uphold an article of the U.S. Constitution could have been reasonably interpreted by elected officials in the other states as “oppressive government or rule” worthy of “trying to flee”?