[MamaTexan]

Lincoln saved the south from the utter stupidity of creating a failed totalitarian thuggocracy.

Lincoln breached the contract of the Constitution and destroyed the Republic trying to preserve the union.

[Luis Gonzalez]

You want to discuss contracts?

The people of the United States paid $5 million in 1821 to purchase Florida because Georgia wanted to control the Seminole Indians.

Forty years later they BOTH want to secede without concern about the fact that it would remain to the people of a diminished nation to foot the bill?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"When the States ratified the Constitution of 1787, they pledged that they would accept the results of elections conducted according to its rules. In violation of this pledge, the Southern States seceded because they did not like the outcome of the election of 1860. Thus secession is the interruption of the constitutional operation of republican government, substituting the rule of the minority for that of the majority."

The Confederacy violated the Constitution.

[justshutupandtakeit]

If you believe the Constitution is a mere contract your further reasoning will be flawed.

But even if it were a mere contract then secession was even less defensible since it would amount to a unilateral abrogation of that "contract."

So either way the Slavers were in the wrong.