No, i'm just tired of listening to uniformed people trying to justify the history they WANT to believe in at the expense of an essential principle from this nation's founding.
By the very words of the Declaration of Independence, people have a right to abolish the form of government that they live under and create a new one more to their liking.
There reasons for doing so (even if it was to protect slavery) have nothing to do with their *RIGHT* to do so. When the Colonies seceded from England, they too were all slave states. Every one of them still had legal slavery, so it is rather hypocritical to suggest that because states had legal slavery, they had no right to secede.
Again, ALL THE COLONIES had legal slavery in 1776.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline#1700.E2.80.931800
The Civil war was a disaster for this nation and most especially for the principle of self determination. It is when the Federal Leviathan began, and now it has grown into the massive beast that it is which is currently usurping so many of our rights.
Slavery was doomed anyway. Mechanized farming was just a few decades away, and it would have made slavery unprofitable, and that would have killed it.
On the other hand, the Federal leviathan which was birthed by that conflict is still with us, and growing more powerful with each passing year.
You think the people in Mississippi who wrote that document knew that? (BTW-- mechanized cotton farming did not become profitable until the 1960s not the 1870's or 80's as you imagine. Share croppers were still picking cotton when Kennedy was president.)
The South's cause was not justified under any concept of Natural Law. Their 'institutions' i.e. Slavery, where not under any threat in 1860 other than confining it to their states where it was still legal. The fact is they could not tolerate the Republicans blocking further expansion. It was a mortal threat to them.
The Slave Power understood the economics of slavery. They understood the only reason slavery was profitable to them was because it was a Ponzi Scheme that required continual expansion into new markets. Block expansion of slavery, and they would be ruined.