Agreed. Don’t you find it amusing that the South apologists want to equate a state’s right over the federal government’s right. As if either of them had any rights to begin with. Yet, they ignore the people who actually had rights (the slaves).
How many times in the federalist papers is it talked about the rights of the minority (be they political minorities or anything else) and how we as a people need to protect their rights. But I guess the South’s “right” to secede trumped all of that...
I find it hysterical to watch the extent to which they will bend even their own opinions to protect the so called right to secede.
Any student of history knows that the tariffs inflicted on the south were punitive in nature, designed to punish the southern states for continuing slavery as was the 3/5 compromise was crafted to force the southern states to free their slaves.
Every grievance the south had against the federal government was directly linked to their continuation of the practice of slavery and yet neo confederate will do handstands on razor blades to avoid saying the south seceded to maintain slavery.
It is the type of hypocrisy I would normally expect out of a die hard liberal.