My family like many, many others homesteaded in Iowa in 1843.
Slavery and the slave hunters was a significant problem.
But secession was never a consideration because the Federal government was providing much appreciated fertile land and opportunity that my family had only dreamed of while in NY.
Remember too, the threat of Indian attack was very real.
My family and others had to form the NE Iowa Protection Association that was no less a militia to also protect from marauding thieves and bandits.
Loss of Federal protection would not have been sensible.
Why were they a particular problem? An affront, yes, but a problem? I don't see it.
Remember too, the threat of Indian attack was very real.
My family and others had to form the NE Iowa Protection Association that was no less a militia to also protect from marauding thieves and bandits.
Loss of Federal protection would not have been sensible.
The guy who writes at "Curmudgeonly and Skeptical" blog is a freeper, (though I don't know his freeper name) but years ago he offered this pearl of wisdom.
"Why don't all the sane states get together and pull a reverse secession by kicking all the insane states out of the Union? "
Seems like a pretty good idea to me. :)
BTW, I have a friend from Waterloo Iowa.