[Non-Sequitur]

I pinged him/her here because of Freeper courtesy...

Your 'courtesy' is as out of character and is it is misplaced.

First, I don't what kind of kicks that someone like Non-Sequitur gets from stalking the Civil War threads. It would seem he/she would have something better to do with their lives.

Isn't combating the southron lies, misquotes, and exaggerations reason enough?

[carton253]

So, the next time I won't ping you and that way you won't waste time responding to me. Now, be on your merry way "combating southron lies, misquotes, and exaggerations." Wouldn't want one of them to past your picket line now, would we?

[Colt .45]

"Isn't combating the southron lies, misquotes, and exaggerations reason enough?"

Methinks thou dost protest too much! And here for your consumption and digestion are the articles that the South seceded under -

Amendment IX - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or the people.

So the Constitutional scholars and the Founders recognized that these two Amendments gave a state the right to secede, but your type seems to blithely ignore them. Like I said before, your Constitution is written in pencil for ease of revision.