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?
[i]“I’m not aware that the Confederates ever used the Declaration as a basis for their action. They used secession, a presumed Constitutional concept, as their basis.”[/i]
Once again: “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to 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, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Other than drawing it in crayon, I don’t I know of anything that could be more clear to the right of secession unless you think our founders were only joking from one founding document to the next.
[i]“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.”[/i]
No more inconvenient in 1961 than in 1776. Once again, you block out the parts of history you don’t like.
[i]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?[/i]
Beats me. I would need more info than you’re providing to even guess.
For later.
This will be a fun one.