“So you’re saying because the north didn’t use their full resources to return slaves to their “masters” that the southern states were not bound by anything in the Constitution.”
That’s what Daniel Webster said. Read it for yourself.
Note to self: P.G. disagrees with Daniel Webster.
“I believe in states following the Constitution when they want to leave . . .”
Please post the language of the Constitutional procedure for leaving the union whose existence you infer.
And Webster's opinion on when states should follow the Constitution matters because?
Note to self: P.G. disagrees with Daniel Webster. “I believe in states following the Constitution when they want to leave . . .” Please post the language of the Constitutional procedure for leaving the union whose existence you infer.
Pretty easy. South Carolina wants to secede. South Carolina takes their proposal to the Congress so Congress can decide how South Carolina will prove it's secession to the other states. Terms are reached regarding Fort Sumter and any other debts South Carolina owes or is owed. Federal facilities in the state are reckoned with and on a certain date when everything is settled to the satisfaction of the other states, the union is dissolved.
Instead, they stole stuff and tried to murder American soldiers.