Justice Salmon P. Chase later ruled against the constitutionality of secession in Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1868). “The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.” Texas v. White at 725.
This is what senile people decide.Dream on.
What do you mean, dream on? A previous poster stated that the issue of the constitutionality of secession had never been ruled upon. My post, citing Texas v. White, was intended to show that, not only was secession ruled upon, but that it was ruled upon by the very jurist so often claimed to have decided not to proceed with treason charges against Jefferson Davis because the courts would have ruled that secession was constitutional.
You may believe that Justice Chase was senile because of the decision he reached in Texas v. White.
However, when someone claims that the issue of secession was never ruled upon, they're wrong.
"The framers of our Consttution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken up by every member of the Confederacy at will. It is intended for 'perpetual union,' so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution or the consent of all the people in convention assembled. It is idle to talk of secession."
General Lee must have been heartbroken when he was faced with the decision to follow his State...