You are supporting this principle of an involuntary Union, so why would you object to the United Kingdom's involuntary Union? I thought you were okay with forced Unions?
we had never assented to being incorporated in any Kingdom.
What does consent have to do with it? If it were a consensual Union, people would be allowed to leave when they withdrew their consent to being a part of it.
Your sophistry won’t work here were people have some knowledge.
The Southern states were never conquered and forced into an illegitimate union. They were the principal reason there was one and they understood that the union was to be perpetual.