JCBreckenridge responding: "So you find state’s rights irrational I see."
Don't be silly.
Any states have the same "right" to start and declare war on the United States -- the same right as the United States has to defeat them and make them wish they had been a whole lot smarter.
I mean, just how smart do you have to be to start a war with a country that outnumbers and out-produces you by factors of several to one?
And now consider that at least half your population (slaves) supports the Union and will fight for them if offered the chance -- what sense does that make?
Of course, extreme courage is admirable, but stupidity, well, not so much.
“I mean, just how smart do you have to be to start a war with a country that outnumbers and out-produces you by factors of several to one?”
Perhaps the answer is that they never started the war at all and were invaded by the much larger and stronger power who sought to subjugate them.
I don’t find it admirable in the least. Just to~the~bone stupid.