But when Might is used for Right, it shines as its own evidence in the Sunlight.Might doesn't make right.
I tried to think of something that rhymed and made sense, but I failed.
The Colonies fought for the right of self-government, and it's hypocritical for the government created by the Colonies to deny that right to the Confederacy. So in this case, might wasn't used for right.
The states voluntarily ceded sovereignity when they joined the union. If they were to maintain it, the Constitution would have stated it. But it did not. Only did it regulate the entry of new states into the union.
Secessionists are the height of hypocrisy to suggest the same of the union. For shame.
Read the tenth amendment, carefully, it's only one sentence, but maybe the most important one sentence in the Constitution, (and yes, it is an integral part of the Constitution), "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.
Here's what the founders were telling us:
The power of secession was not given to the United States to either prevent, or to force on any State, and it was not prohibited by the Constitution to the States, so it remained with the States.
Now that's the Constitutional aspect of secession.
Here's something else that should be considered:
There were over four million slaves in the States that seceded, that doesn't include the four "slave States" that remained in the Union. What was to be done with these people if slavery were to be ended. They didn't own any land, they barely owned the clothes they wore.
There were people in the South who would have gladly participated in a plan to eliminate slavery that wouldn't have thrown them into poverty and put millions of illiterate blacks lose to survive any way possible. That would have resulted in gangs of blacks roaming the countryside, raping and pillaging at will, as happened anyway at the end of the war.
But no, just like forced integration a hundred years later, the powers that be had to do it instantaneous[y, resulting in decades of racial violence.
I have four ancestors who served during the War Between The States, two in the 16th Maine Infantry (Thomas Dorset and Sylvanus Chick) Regiment and two in the Fifth Florida Infantry Division (William James Stewart and Robert May)., only one family owned slaves, the May family of Jefferson County Florida, and Asa May, the Patriarch of that family wanted to end slavery, but in a peaceful way that would not throw the slave owners into poverty. He had several ideas that would spread the expense .of converting to a paid workforce over all who profited from the institution of slavery, including the Northern Textile Mill owners and the people who bought and wore the clothes made from the cotton produced by slaves. But no again, the hothead abolitionist leaders and Textile Mill Mogels would hear nothing of it, So over 600,000 had to die, and over a million more go missing in action (some just went west, some went home, and others were miscounted, but even if one fourth of these were killed it would add another 250,000 to the killed list)
Now, you may say, and I'm sure some of you will, that I'm just making this up after the fact, but that's your prerogative. I got it from personal research into my family history inspired by family 'tradition'. In any case, there were many slave owners who would have gladly traded their slaves for a life free of the curse bestowed upon them by their ancestors, if they could have done it without throwing their children into abject poverty.
Now, as one man who was raised by a Mother from Maine, and a Father from Wakulla County Florida, say that you who say the slaves should have been set free instantly with no regard for the safety of the Southern Whites, mostly who didn't own slaves but owned 99% of the fire arms, or the slaves themselves who owned nothing and would have had no choice but to pillage a survival by any means available to them, you people are worse morally than the institution of slavery itself.
How about lets debate a way slavery could have been ended without the violence of war and the 100 years of racial violence that followed. Come on, I challenge you!