>> Well let’s not leave out all the Northern ... [blah, blah, blah, bah]
The Union prohibited transatlantic slave trade in 1807. And had prohibited slavery within Northern states even earlier. I’m talking about libertaing oneself from sadistic, terroristic, absurdly repressive governments, and you’re blathering about vengence of generations gone by.
>> I thought their victory over the British established that the right of states to be independent was valid. <<
Nope. In fact, the notion that they were states was even a later invention.
You seem to confuse vengence with liberation. The transatlantic slave trade was prohibited in 1807. There would be no point in attacking the
>> In 1860, many states believed the government of the United States no longer served their interests, and so they chose to exercise the right to independence which the founders established. <<
It is an undeniable fact that the Southern states were represented in the Senate and House (and military, and Supreme Court and its circuit courts). The DofI complained about lack of representation, lack of recourse, lack of permitted governors, lack of ability to draft needed local laws, and so on and so on.