[WhiskeyPapa]

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.

He -never- said that. How do you know?

Show me.

But the thing is, no one is denying a right to secession --which is just another word for revolution. I have never denied such a right. It clearly exists in natural law for intolerable abuse.

To say that such a right is legal under U.S. law is false. I have not seen a single quote ever, from any of the principals that such a right existed.

Walt

[HenryLeeII]

In all of Washington's extensive writings that I have read, he never spoke out against a right to secede. Show me where he did. Call it secession, revolution, or Jazzercize, the states reserved all rights not delegated to the Federal government for themselves.