Al Gore said the same of Florida.
That's all beside the point. Unionists did participate. Unionists also participated in the public vote that ratified their actions, by a landslide. It does not state that they were 'discouraged' from the vote. It does not cite any specifics of 'discouragement' of unionists at the convention.
We know he lied. Secessionists were killing free-staters in Kansas so we know that the secessionists were indeed thugs. Plus anyone that's wants to secede for slavery is a thug by definition anyway.
That's all beside the point. Unionists did participate.
But most were threatened to not participate.
Unionists also participated in the public vote that ratified their actions, by a landslide.
Too late. That's after the coup. Saddam won by landslides also.
It does not state that they were 'discouraged' from the vote. It does not cite any specifics of 'discouragement' of unionists at the convention.
That's after the coup so it doesn't matter. In this country we elect people through a process. That process was scrapped by the thugs. Anything after that is lawlessness as Governer Houston observed.