[DwFry]

“The recourse to the Declaration of Independence is rather ironic considering the slave empire didn’t much like attention to that document.”

Again, stop getting your ideas from Hollywood & crack a few history books. The constutution was trashed during the Ciivil War. I know you dont like to hear it, I dont like to hear the slave stuff, but there are uncomfortable truths on both sides.

“dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,...”

That was killed in the Civil War by the Union. That cannot be argued.

“The reference to revolution and mention of inaliable God-given rights might give the human property ideas and make them uppity”

No more so than the founders of our country...you seem to block out the parts of our history you dont like.

Grow up! Yopu’re trying to judge the values of people who are as far removed from todays values as you could imagine.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I'm not aware that the Confederates ever used the Declaration as a basis for their action. The used secession, a presumed Constitutional concept, as their basis. The concepts of a right of revolution would have been inconvenient not only with reference to their slave population but also with large strategic regions of their domain where the citizens overwhelmingly wished to stay in the Union.

The voters in East Tennessee rejected secession by over 4-1. In the Greeneville Convention, the people of Union-loyal East Tennessee requested separation from Tennessee and the confederacy. A strategically vital railroad ran through the valley of East Tennessee. Do you think that their request should have been granted?