[central_va]

“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a ‘rebellion’ is a gross abuse of language.” — President Davis

[ClearCase_guy]

The South was right about almost everything. I have to say that slavery was a bad institution and I'm glad it is gone -- but there were a lot of political issues under discussion in the pre-civil war era, and the South was right on everything except slavery.

Had I been alive at the time, I would hope that I would have left MA and gone south to fight for the real principles that founded this nation.

[Texas Mulerider]

Some things never change.

"The Federal Government, while but partially under the control of these our unnatural and sectional enemies, has for years almost entirely failed to protect the lives and property of the people of Texas against the Indian savages on our border, and more recently against the murderous forays of banditti from the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when our State government has expended large amounts for such purpose, the Federal Government has refused reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harrassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas." -- Texas Declaration of Causes, Feb.2, 1861

[KrisKrinkle]

Davis was a Democrat. Were any of the governments of the States that seceded not Democrat?

It could be argued that the Democrats have been working for the dissolution of the United States for over 150 years. They couldn’t pull it off by secession, so they undertook doing it by undermining it from the inside.