[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.

[arrogantsob]

Jefferson understood the difference between revolt against an authority never consented to and one freely consented to and thus would never have gone along with the hotheads leading the South into disaster because they didn’t like the president elected. Elected mainly because of the stupidity of the slavers. I must say this was one of the most lunatic of ruling classes only topped perhaps by the boneheaded Russian nobility.

Luther Martin was in no way irrational in his hatred of Jefferson. He knew of his dishonesty and duplicity. Martin was also a Federalist after the new government began to work.