Joe you must be a history professor or something. Whatever, you’re sure know your subject. I read your posts and am getting a lot of stuff they never taught us in school. I see the “Johnny Rebs’’ here have gone quiet. Such is always the case when ignorance meets knowledge. Keep on keeping on FRiend.
More like they get tired of wading through a wall of text to find anything relevant to the point.
The declaration of independence says that people have a right to leave. Everything else is just so much obfuscation of the fundamental principle contested by the war; The right to Independence.
I will also point out that I am not a "Johnny Reb". I have never lived in a Southern State, and I have no family that fought in the conflict. We didn't arrive in this country until the early 1900s.
I am a person that learned bit by bit that we have been fundamentally misled by the winners who wrote the history books. Joe and others seem intent on continuing the effort to mislead us. They probably find it painful to contemplate their ancestors having done a very evil thing.