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WhiskeyPapa is not the subject of this thread, and Sherman and Sheridan have not come up until you mentioned them.

There is no way to have a useful discussion unless one keeps on the subject.

Let's do the "March to the Sea" another time, and for now, ask whether it is true that the American Founding enshrined a legal and peaceful right to secession.

Regards,

Richard F.

This WHOLE debate is MORONIC!! The constitution is a conatract between the states in order to create an entity powerful enough to compete on the world stage. The fed's job was to deal with international treaties and such, defense of the country, and provide for the general welfare.

IT WAS A CONTRACT!! If one party breaks a contract, the other party has EVERY RIGHT to pull out of the contract. This is a basic legal right, The federal government went beyond its powers and so the South reacted in the only way it felt it could, it removed itself from the contract. THAT IS EVERYONES right. If a majority of a states constituents (citizens) want to secede and vote to secede from the UNION, the Federal government has NO right to force them to stay.

The federal government has gone way beyond it's contractual limits, therefore ANY and ALL states that wish to secede from the UNION have every right to do so.

WhiskeyPapa is not the subject of this thread, and Sherman and Sheridan have not come up until you mentioned them.

Funny, you didn't get onto WhiskeyPapa for thread creep. What I responded to was what every Psuedo-Union type does when they run out of facts: claim some sort of moral superiority because of "slavery". They conveniently forgive all immoralities committed by Lincoln, Sheridan, and Sherman among others - because the CAUSE was "right". The ends justify the means - only in one's mind. Right is always right. Wrong is always wrong. Southerners argue their cause on principle. Pseudo-Unionists argue because they wrote, and continue to write the history... Deo Vindice!