You're not very good at this, are you? (It's not even fun anymore. It's like, kicking yankees and their lapdog scalawags......)
Once again, you're posting personally held believes that have no foundation in fact. In fact, Buchanan's State of the Union Address, 12/3/1860, goes into great detail of 'incipient tyranny'. (I'd post a link but have decided to let you do your own digging, which, of course, is not your strong suit.)
Furthermore, the entire South was aware of the impending tyranny following the election of disHonest Abe. Why do you think they seceded?
unless you were on the business end of the Slaver Whips
You mean the ones wielded by the yankee slave traders?
"[R]ace prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in those states where slavery was never known." --Alexis De Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
The size of the federal army is no “personal belief”. It was tiny.
The fact that state governments had more power over and involvement in the lives of citizens than the miniscule federal government is no “personal belief”.
The fact that white men (even in the Land of the Whip and Lash) had more freedom in the US than anywhere in the world is no “personal belief”. It is indisputable.
What do I care about Buchanan, another in the almost unbroken chain of pro-slavery presidents? It was through this series of pro-slavery presidents that much of the control of the federal government was implemented.
The Slave Power was idiotic and insane and its idiocy and insanity led it to conclude it could destroy the greatest nation in the history of the world. Much like the insanity and evil of the Nazis led them to think they could conquer the world.
Whip-wielding Yankee slavers, oh, perish forbid, everyone knows they used charm to lure the slaves to the ships. Where have I ever defended slavers of any region? Where do I claim that the North was not nearly as racist as the South? Why should an abomination be canceled by another abomination in any case?
There was NO Tyranny from the TINY federal government of 1860. Thus, the foundation of your apologia for the Slavers dissolves and the whole stupid argument is washed away.