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To: fortheDeclaration
To return to his home state and then lead that same State and other States against the U.S. government that he had served under is nothing less then treason.

His State left the Union. Had he continued to serve in the United States Government, he'd have been a traitor to his State, unless he moved away and abjured his Mississippi citizenship.

As it was, his U.S. citizenship lapsed with Mississippi's secession from the Union.

There was no rebellion and no insurrection.

1,306 posted on 11/26/2004 4:02:32 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus; capitan_refugio
His State left the Union

Correction, his state attempted to leave the Union.

Did any foreign power recognize it as a separate state?

1,310 posted on 11/26/2004 4:15:48 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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