There actions were illegal, and violations of the Constitution. That made those states to be in rebellion to the federal government. Lincoln should have blockaded their ports, raised armies to invade the rebellious northern states, arrest thousands that disagreed with his policies, burn their crops and homes, kill their women and children, destroy their factories, occupy them with millions of Southerners and rule them with military governments while robbing their state treasuries blind. </sarcasm>
If the North is the Mecca you claim it to be, why don't all blacks live there?
"If the North is the Mecca you claim it to be, why don't all blacks live there?"
Yet another typical, ignorant, bigoted remark, but what else is new?.