[arrogantsob]

Such oppression had not happened. The federal government was tiny in 1860. It had almost NO military arm not fighting the Indians. It had been run by Southerners for most of our existence. It had NO intention to oppress the slavers.

There are few arguments as absurd as that claiming actions of the federal government justified rebellion.

Luther Martin would not have supported the RAT Rebellion. Perhaps you should quote Luther Martin’s opinion of Jefferson, the poster boy of the secessionists.

[conimbricenses]

It's hard to say what a man who had been dead for 35 years would have thought of secession in 1861, so I won't pretend to speak on his behalf. But I can and will say with certainty that Jefferson believed secession a legitimate right if the grievance was sufficiently high, and that he both believed in and personally supported nullification in several cases throughout his career.

As to Martin, neither his largely irrational dislike of all things Jefferson nor Jefferson's own personal shortcomings on which it was instigated is sufficient to disprove the general disdain that both men had for the federal government's encroachment upon the states. Politics makes strange bedfellows.