[Non-Sequitur]

Sure you can, by breaking diplomatic relations.

Under international law, embassies have extraterritorial status. They are exempt from local jusrisdictions, cannot be entered without permission, and severing diplomatic relations does not change that status except in countries with no respect for the law. Like the confederacy, I guess.

Which Lincoln refused in the first place.

No need. One does not extend diplomatic recognition to ones own territory.

South Carolina was within her rights to tell the Yankees to get out.

No she wasn't. Not that that mattered to her.

[stand watie]

"embassies have extraterritorial status" ====> and you can PROVE this assertion, after a war is declared between the belligerents????

i think NOT!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

the CSA, fyi, was NOT US soil after SECESSION. no matter how much you may WISH it was not so, secession was/IS lawful.

the STATES created the federal government and the STATES therefore are FREE to modify/change/abolish/withdraw from the union and/or accept new states into the union at the STATES whim.

that is the TRUE importance of the TENTH AMENDMENT!

free dixie,sw