[DiogenesLamp]

I did not ask you to trot out the usual four states secession statements, or drag out the Confederate constitution's mention of the word "slave", I asked you to explain in real terms what was going to change about slavery as a consequence of secession.

What was going to change in real practical terms?

[Bull Snipe]

In their view, secession would preserve slavery as it existed at the time they seceded. A rational thought, if they felt their economic underpinnings were threatened by the ideas of a Republican majority Congress and a Republican President.