[Colonel Kangaroo]

So in other words the Confederates felt that the government was no longer responsive to their needs as a people?

I'm not sure that the need to get one's way in every matter is a legitimate need that a government must fulfill. Republican government presupposes a degree of political maturity and restraint which the Confederates lacked in 1860-61.

[Michael.SF.]

Republican government presupposes a degree of political maturity and restraint which the Confederates lacked

Yup, dem Southern boys just aint ready fur such a sofisticated a thing as that there constatoosion is thay?