You're getting to be like the Clinton's in the fact that you can't keep your tales straight. President Washington indicated that any idea that the Union can be ended should be rejected.
That pretty much includes secession too.
Walt
Walt, George Washington preferred to be addressed as 'General' over any other title, including 'President.' You can contact the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association at (703) 870-2000 to verify that (unless they've changed their number in the last couple of years). When speaking of a former president or v.p., the proper form of address is by using their highest previous office except for the two aforementioned. For example, Ronald Reagan should be addressed as Governor, and George H.W. Bush should be addressed as Ambassador. I used to have an office next to the protocol office in the Federal agency I used to work for, and that's one of the tidbits I picked up from those folks.
General Washington hoped that secession could be avoided, and hoped that rational men would think deliberately and without local prejudice, but he never came out and said that a state should never have a right to secede. And please do not confuse a state or states seceding with the end of the Union. Those are two different events.