[BroJoeK]

PeaRidge: "As pointed out to you earlier, no citizen was stripped of his rights. Secession in no way harmed any rights of persons living under the original Constitution."

In fact, there were huge regions of several Confederate states which refused to recognize declarations of secession and sent their young men to serve the Union Army.

Those regions included: Western Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, Western North Carolina, Northern Arkansas.
In addition, the Confederacy claimed sovereignty over Missouri and Kentucky, which never voted to secede, and sent the majority of their young men to the Union Army.

In the end, only South Carolina and Georgia, so far as we know, supplied no serious forces to the Union.
So obviously, not everybody in the South agreed that secession was such a great idea.

[rockrr]

I finally received my copy of a book titled “The State of Jones”. It is a recounting of the resistance to confederate rule that went on in in Jones County Mississippi. Fascinating book!

[Tau Food]

PeaRidge isn't really confused by any of this. He knows that you can't attempt to remove an existing government and attempt to create an entirely new nation without affecting the rights of the people in your neighborhood.

The Fourteenth Amendment contains language that ends that bogus argument forever. "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"

PeaRidge just isn't willing to make the argument that the "secessionists' made and so instead he just pretends to not understand what the "secessionists" were arguing.

[PeaRidge]

You said: “So obviously, not everybody in the South agreed that secession was such a great idea.”

That is true, but not a point that I was addressing.

The fact that some citizens of seceded states chose to serve in the Union army is evidence that they were not “stripped of their rights” as you asserted.

You are contradicting yourself.