[Ditto]

... or an abuse of the compact absolving the seceding party from the obligation imposed by it...

So what was the abuse of the 'compact' that justified secession?

[rockrr]

Someone probably called her mercurial... ;-)

[MamaTexan]

So what was the abuse of the 'compact' that justified secession?

Their continued passage of laws concerning the return of escaped slaves, which were contrary to both what they agreed to when they signed the Constitution as well as the legal precedent set by the USSC Court of Appeals.

[central_va]

You don’t understand, for most Southerners the war was just to get away from the New England Yankee puritans. We just plain don’t like you. Get it? Slavery was as good a reason as any. Killing Yankees with a free rifle and ammo was really appealing to a lot of people back then, still is to a lot of folks.