[DiogenesLamp]

The southern states had a right to leave.

Similarly, the slaves had a God given right to overthrow their "masters", by force if necessary.

I agree. I always liked the John Brown approach to the problem.

[Monorprise]

""The southern states had a right to leave. Similarly, the slaves had a God given right to overthrow their "masters", by force if necessary. "
I agree. I always liked the John Brown approach to the problem."

I agree with this sentiment as well. The right of revolutionary withdraw of the consent of the govern is so central to the idea of a free republic that one could not be sustained overtime without such a right.
The reason is really not that difficult to understand nor observe in the history after our "civil war" even as the Federal Constitution to the extent it persisted as a limits upon the power of Washington had largely restarted the grown and abuse of federal power in years sense. Taking a decade or a century the end is almost invariably the same.
Those in power tend to uses that power to benefit themselves with increasing disregard to the unfair burden they transfer upon those out of power. Thus more and more laws effecting the same end are created with ever greater degrees of inequity built into their design until such time that the oppressed and abused minority as little choice but to collapse or rebel again in search of freedom.