Why should the majority yield to the minority?
Why should the remaining states take on the debt incurred in the name of all?
Walt
Of course, nobody will ask the obvious question: Walt, what in the Sam Hell was the Union doing with a debt in the first place?
Did Lincoln send a delegate to the CSA to negotiate the debt? Did he meet with CSA delegates to dicsuss proper handling of federal lands within the borders of the CSA?
No, he raised an army and invaded.
Post all the lofty rhetoric about preserving the union that you'd like, even Lincoln knew it to be impossible. Coersion of the states was no less destructive to the idea of Union than was secession. Only the cohesion provided of a common enemy would heal the division set on by either coersion or secession, and thanks to Lincoln we had both.
VMI, as for Baghdad Bob/Whiskeypapa hijacking another thread, apologies.
Why should the majority enslave the minority?
(Can't address any debt issue as I know nothing of it.)