No, they decided to rebel to protect their institution of slavery from what they saw as the threat against its expansion posed by the Lincoln administration’s opposition to it. But that is hardly oppression.
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Hmmm. I am shocked. ... SHOCKED that there is nothing in your convenient abridgement of the facts about States rights.
We are not going to get anywhere here.
You have made up your mind that the South was wrong to opt for Secession.
I, on the other hand, believe they were well within their rights.
And, no, it was not all about slavery, but, yes, it was in large part about slavery. I am not thrilled to admit that part, but I do.
Nonetheless: Slavery or no, the South was within its rights to opt for secession.
Else the Declaration and Constitution were rather odd in permitting secession only one time (i.e., from England), but after that, mandatory inclusion in a union voluntarily entered in the first place.
The colonies didn’t secede from Great Britain - they openly rebelled against the crown.
I don’t think that anyone here said that no one could secede - just that they way the slavers tried to do it wasn’t jake.
State's right to do what?
You have made up your mind that the South was wrong to opt for Secession...I, on the other hand, believe they were well within their rights.
The difference is that the Supreme Court ruled that one of us is right and the other is wrong.
And, no, it was not all about slavery, but, yes, it was in large part about slavery. I am not thrilled to admit that part, but I do.
So how can you possibly equate the Confederate cause with that of the Founding Fathers?
Nonetheless: Slavery or no, the South was within its rights to opt for secession.
Well you know what they say about opinions.
Else the Declaration and Constitution were rather odd in permitting secession only one time (i.e., from England), but after that, mandatory inclusion in a union voluntarily entered in the first place.
The colonists rebelled, they did not secede. And with the exception of the first 13, none of the state joined anything voluntarily. They were allowed to join only after a majority of the existing states decided to permit them to.