[warchild9]

Arguing about slavery is a red herring, as irrelevant as arguments about Lincoln's sexual preferences.
An appropriate contemporary argument would concern the meaning of citizenship, and whether politicians, for whatever reason, have a right to maintain their power over others using force, and whether the Constitution as a contract concedes adherence to the Union under threat of death.

[republicanwizard]

Would those issues even have been debated if slavery were not involved.

To oppose the Civil War is to support slavery.

[Question_Assumptions]

An appropriate contemporary argument would concern the meaning of citizenship, and whether politicians, for whatever reason, have a right to maintain their power over others using force, and whether the Constitution as a contract concedes adherence to the Union under threat of death.

Do you support the right of Islamic Americans acting against the interests of the United States government? Do you support the right of Kosovo Albanians to seize control of Kosovo from Serbia and declare the independence? Do you support the action of the citizens of West Virginia to succeed from Virginia during the Civil War and join with the Union?