The God-given right of rebellion is immutable. Of course winning is crucial to ones continued viability. The colonists won their rebellion. The confeds did not.
The south could have tried secession - no not the phony “spit in your eye” unilateral secession, but true negotiated withdrawal. Instead they had a national tantrum and started a war they could not possibly win.
No, our nation isn’t like a trite song that treats us like inmates. But it isn’t like a magazine subscription that we can ignore and walk away from any time we get a bee in our bonnets.
I dare say the Confederates put up a bigger fight than did the Colonists. Lincoln was just more willing to kill people than was George III.
The south could have tried secession - no not the phony “spit in your eye” unilateral secession, but true negotiated withdrawal.
Oh, they did secede. Had they left Fort Sumter alone, they would have also succeeded.
Instead they had a national tantrum and started a war they could not possibly win.
Just like the Colonists. I suppose if the Confederates had merely encountered a contingent of Union Troops and traded gunfire with them, thereby killing 73 of them, that would have been acceptable from your perspective? Obviously bombarding a bunch of rock walls while killing no one is just way over the line.