[DiogenesLamp]

Well, the fact is that the secessionists were just wrong. In their declaration of "secession," the slaveholders in Mississippi argued that they had no choice but to secede because they had become totally dependent upon slaves. Specifically, they argued:

Even if your claim is true, it does not speak to their right to leave if they so chose.

You and others are constantly preoccupied with their reasons for leaving, and deliberately ignore their right to do so.

You do this because if the question is focused on their rights, you lose the debate. You persistently insist that it be focused on everything but their right to leave, because along that avenue you have no valid argument.

You simply cannot get to the result you want (that the Union was right) if you go down that path, so this is why you refuse to look at the issue as a matter of the rights of the Southern states.

You only want to focus on their reasons because those are anachronistically unpopular now.

[Tau Food]

You and others are constantly preoccupied with their reasons for leaving, and deliberately ignore their right to do so.

We would have been better off if they had left. But, they didn't leave. They stayed here in the USA.