Does a State have the right to secede?
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08-21-2013, 11:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2013 11:56 AM by Liz Rosenthal.)
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RE: Does a State have the right to secede?
I guess you didn't consider any of my discussion concerning West Virginia or secession in general, other than the bit about karma, the latter of which was a fun throwaway on my part.
This will probably start a firestorm here, but the leaders of the southern states that seceded or rebelled would have had a lot of gall to complain about the Union's encouragement of western Virginia's efforts to remove itself from Virginia when: 1) The South seceded itself; 2) They set up a dangerous precedent for themselves that could have, and at some point probably would have, broken up the Confederacy; 3) They claimed that, in seceding, they were just safeguarding their "freedom," in this case the freedom to own slaves, which meant a complete lack of freedom for an entire class of people. This was the ultimate in hypocrisy. Southern slaveowners did have the unbelievable gall to demand the return of their runaway slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act at the same time that they claimed to have left the Union, in which case, they should have realized that they forfeited any claims they had under the Act! Gene has an interesting way of looking at it - that western Virginia was essentially trying to stay in the Union. (08-21-2013 10:59 AM)brtmchl Wrote: Liz: Check out my web sites: http://www.petersonbird.com http://www.elizabethjrosenthal.com |
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