[Idabilly]

“If what you say is true and not just hyperventilation, then the South should have petitioned the Supreme Court (which was controlled by Southerners) to secede.

Problem solved.”

They would have need arrested! Just like other vocal critics of the tyrants Administration.

“Under this Constitution, as originally adopted and as it now exists, no State has power to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the United States; and this Constitution, and all laws passed in pursuance of its delegated powers, are the supreme late of the land, anything contained in any constitution, ordinance, or act of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
28 nays to 18 yeas

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[AlanD]

Arrested in 1860 for petitioning the Supreme Court? That is absurd.

After they attacked Fort Sumter, of course the Supreme Court couldn’t have helped them.