All the opinions of Webster , Washington, Webster, Jefferson, or william Tell, (or whoever) does not ask if the South was correct in secedding when it did.
I see a section of the country who was destitute of many things, self defence, a mediocre transportation/road system, lacking in many capabilities for self reliance, depending on a hope of European intervention, depended mostly on Cotton/farm goods to barter with...not prepared to be able to sustain it's self if war from secedding with the North came about.
Were all the legal arguments and reasons given by folk on this BB worth the 600 thousand casulties (North and South) and the loss of freedom's, degredations, and devistation brought on by an act of not counting the cost?
I'm asking that question, and I say no.
Kevin Dally