So they believed themselves to be above Constitutional law? So if they broke the Union compact, what is the big deal if others wanted to break it too?
It's not a compact unless everyone upholds it.
Yes, my family broke the law and accepted the consequences, laws they thought were unjust and immoral.
The incursion of slave hunters was a very sore point.
As my grandfather explained when I asked him why my great-grandfather would risk his life and freedom to help escaping slaves. Grandpa only replied, “They were Methodists”, nothing more.
When Fort Sumter was fired on, the early Iowa regiments were self financed with gray uniforms. They didn’t think of being a part of the Union Army, they planned to attack the Confederacy on their own.
After a few months of training, they cooled off, waited for Blue uniforms and accepted commission into the Union army.
Had Missouri chosen to secede they would have been invaded by the Iowa volunteers with or without orders from Lincoln.