“Legitimate government’’? “Secessionists’’?The American colonists were subjects of the Crown who also had elected their forms of self- governing , autonomous systems . They desired to break free of King George and the Crown and create a new government in a new country. And indeed in north and south,slavery was still an institution, it certainly was in Virgina in 1861 . It was America’s ‘’original sin’’. It wasn’t after 1865. Logic sure seems far from the shores of your mind.
“Logic sure seems far from the shores of your mind.”
A little projection there, jmac. You ought to get yourself a copy of Copi’s Logic. It should teach you how to construct a logical argument and you can wean yourself from sophistry that you are wedded to.