Are you sure you want to concede a natural right of "rebellion?"
No mention of secession in the Declaration of Independence? I suppose you are correct, the declaration only provides for the right of the people to "alter" or "abolish" government and to "institute" new government. You're right, no right to secession as mentioned.
I noticed you have abandoned your core argument that there is no "enumerated" right to secession (presumably in the Constitution alone).
Unilaterally and illegally.
To argue that the opposite of what someone maintains without justification or explanation is puerile.
But didn't rise to the level of the Brits treatment of the colonists.
Whole sections of the land were burned-out and the population starved out as a deliberate policy anticipating the wars of the 20th century, I think an argument can be made that the Yankees treated the South worse than the Brits treated the colonials. But, remember your initial premise that there is no equivalence, no relevance to the American war of Independence. We are now discussing degrees of violence etc. It sounds to me like we are talking about very similar affairs with arguable degrees of violence on one side or another but no clear ability to say that one was different from another because of the degree of violence. It is impossible given these facts to say that there is no relevance between the two wars.
