[TexConfederate1861]

“It wasn’t a “foreign power” holding the forts.”

As far as I and many Southerners are concerned, once secession took place, the Federal Troops WERE a foreign power. As of Dec. of 1860, to be exact.

[LexBaird]

As far as I and many Southerners are concerned, once secession took place, the Federal Troops WERE a foreign power.

You can walk out on your spouse and consider yourself divorced. It doesn't make it so. It just means you have no regard for the rule of law.