The matter of equitable disposition of costs is secondary to the issue of the existence of the right of secession.
Care to expound on how you can walk on just debts incurred in your name?
The "right" or privilege, of secession surely has an inherent aspect regarding the resolution of debt. Let's forget the ACW, that is all past. The federal debt today is $6.2 trillion or some such. Secession --today-- whether you like it or not, would involve some arrangement regarding this money.
If you stop and think about secession today, it is even more pie in the sky than it was in 1860. You'd have to do it at gun point. There's no other way.
Walt
If you understood English and were honest you would not suggest that saying the debts were a secondary issue in any way amounted to saying that they should not be honoured. Since you constantly misinterpret the statements that others make, and always in a way tending to put your opponent in a bad light, I suspect it is more a matter of dishonesty than of your ignorance of the language, considerable though the latter may be.
Why?
How could that be "honourable"?
Walt