[DoodleDawg]

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”?

You're kidding, right?

[riverdawg]

We could spend years, as some historians have, debating the motivations of the leaders of the various states that seceded from the Union. Instead, why not read and think about what they wrote at that time in the various declarations of secession? And you might start by answering the question I posed in my last post.