[Forward the Light Brigade]

There is nothing in the founding documents that says what he and the CSA Government did was treasonous. If he had gone to trial—he could have won. Many states considered Session before 1860—including New England (during the unpopular Mexican War). The Bloody Civil War should have been avoided if cooler heads had prevailed.

[Salamander]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_secession#New_York_City_secession

[JAKraig]

I live in Kentucky. Here we have a true monument to the first and only president of the Confederacy.

At 351 feet tall, it is the largest [unreinforced] concrete obelisk in the world, and the fifth tallest monument in the United States. The top four are St. Louis's Gateway Arch, 630 feet tall; San Jacinto (Texas) Monument, 570 feet (built to the peoples who created an independent country -- just like the Confederates); the Washington Monument, 555 feet; and the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial at Put in Bay, Ohio, which, at 352 feet, nudges its way past the Davis obelisk by a mere extra 12 inches. The Davis monument was conceived in 1907, at a reunion of the Orphan's Brigade of the Confederate Army. In 1917, construction began. After a halt during World War I, the obelisk was finally completed in 1924. The walls are seven feet thick at the base, two feet thick at the top. The monument features an elevator to an observation room.

The view from the observation room of the surrounding countryside are beautiful. I stumbled upon this by accident while driving on business near Fairview, KY. Upon seeing the monument in the distance I drove towards it until I came to the parking lot. The site was virtually vacant except for me and the elevator operator that took me to the observation room.