Of course you don't! But I should point out that Mr. Graham is a Canadian and his book traces the history of peaceful secession back to Britain's Glorious Revolution in which the Crown passed from JamesII to William and Mary WITHOUT armed conflict.
Of course I realize that you have your own agenda and wouldn't want to read anything that might interfere with THAT!
Yeah I found it interesting where he claims that Rhode Island and Virginia eacefully seceded in 1776 then breezes by that whole 1776-1783 blip that was the Revolutionary War.
In any case why did the confederacy blow their chance to conintinue that line of peaceful secession stretching back from James II to William and Mary by initiating a war over Sumter?
Of course I realize that you have your own agenda and wouldn't want to read anything that might interfere with THAT!
Well if I have my agenda then you certainly have your's as well.
Except that William of Orange landed 21,000 troops in England, fought the Battle of Reading, and marched on London. James was so unpopular that he could barely muster any support and ended up fleeing to France.
Most of what made James unpopular was his Catholicism and his support for other Catholics, who were largely oppressed throughout the British Isles. After he was deposed, the Highland Scots and the Irish rose up against William and were suppressed in a series of wars.
Calling the Glorious Revolution bloodless or likening it to secession is simply wrong.