No there wasn't any rebellion. As one great Statesman said:
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.
You steroid injecting federalist have somehow placed the sovereignty tag on the agent, the general government.
Denial is not only a river in Egypt it seems. It also flows through Lost Causers everywhere.
As one great Statesman said...
Oh barf. Jefferson Davis was anyhing but a great statesman.