Day-O,

"On the other hand, maybe it was a skilful means on the part of my sub-conscious mind to get some non-Southernerers to desist in their constant insistence on lumping scession and slavery together.
In fact I may keep on doing it until they end up seeing them as two entirely different things too."

Southern secession and slavery do go hand-in-hand historically. But that does not mean one can claim they are both included as rights within the Declaration of Independence.