And the principle we adopted in declaring our independence was that it was a God given natural right of mankind. One would think that would have been thereafter the accepted American position on the question, wouldn't you think?
That’d be the confederacy’s side. So are you a Confederate or an American?
The nation was founded as a Confederacy. 13 slave owning states broke away from a Union (United Kingdom) and formed a confederacy in which their armies were led by a slave owning general from Virginia, while the Union they were leaving offered freedom to their slaves.
Quite similar to what happen "Four Score and Seven Years" later.
Not a general principle, but a highly conditional one. The Declaration of Independence first establishes the unique conditions under which such an insurrection Maybe valid and then proceeds to document the ways the numerous and unique ways in which the behavior of the King has made those conditions exist. And the belligerents with which the Confederacy flew to war is absurd. The states rights argument Falls laughably hard Hollow given hell the precipitation of more was the Southern States desire to export slavery into States who’s earliest settlers had no interest in slavery. They knew that there would be less political defense for slavery the more and more non-slave states joined the union so they pressed on to ensure that other states did not have rights including that they must participate in the evil process of rounding up and sending back off on to their torture and even death slaves sua dared to escape the Deep South.