Read Jefferson's inaugural address (1801), Washington's farewell address. The correspondence of Madison and Jefferson after about 1818 clearly shows the abhorrence they shared of destroying their country. Washington considered himself an American not a Virginian.
Secession is constitutionally impossible because no state can make a law (secession) which effects the other states. That is why the Constitution is the Law of the Land. So unless you throw out the constitution secession cannot be legal. Simple logic would show that to one who understands the document and its development.
None of the Southern leaders claimed they were implementing the 10th amendment or acting under it. That is a recent fantasy of the current generation of D.S.s. Nor is there any need to find new writings to make it clear that the founders never intended the "perpetual Union" formed under the Confederation to be disrupted. To claim otherwise is just a Lie.
If you can't understand what I write that is your problem though I am sure you are fibbing about that.
Well, I have to admit that your response was
written better, its just a matter now of getting some
facts involved.
Since when did Washington not consider himself a Virginian? Did he renounce his home state in one of his myriad writings. Don't confuse his shouldering of responsibility by being a visible symbol of and advocate for the new Federal government as a denunciation of his beloved Virginia.
Where specifically in Jefferson's inaugural speech, or Washington's Farewell Adress, do you find an explicit rebuke of secession? How could the Founders, representing their states, in good faith enter into a Constitution from which there was no recourse by the individual states to an encroachment by the Federal government?
Southern leaders did not have to explicitly invoke the Tenth Amendment. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Do you verbally invoke the First Amendment before speaking in public or going to church?