[GOPcapitalist]

What is really "funny" is that the secessionists did not invoke the natural right of revolution against oppression when they went careening down the road to destruction

I'm sure that would come as news to them. There's a famous headline in the Charleston Mercury a few days after South Carolina seceded. It declares that the "REVOLUTION of 1861" is underway

[capitan_refugio]

Individuals may have tried to make the case, but the methods used by the secessionists tell anther story. If their actions had been revolutionary, they would have declared independence, in the same manner as the Founding Fathers.

The Charleston Mercury was the mouthpiece of the fire-eater Robert Barnwell Rhett. He was among the most radical of the southern disunionists.