Here is proof that Disunion was not only accepted as a common idea it was a serious tool used in the formation of policy and law up until the Civil War. Many states, and organized groups used it as a barginning chip to try to force the federal government to COMPROMISE, the basis of the relationship of the sovereign states. The Republican Parties motto in the 1850-60s was NO COMPROMISE, destroying the idea of what formed the Republic in the first place. I left out the many newspaper accounts of the talk of disunion found in almost every decade, if not every year, from 1811 to 1860 for an array of reasons and causes. I have found no proof that it ever really worked, but it allowed the individual state retain its main power, its sovereignty. I believe the War was so terrible this practice was since abandoned and forgotten, but in the last decade or so there has been a reemergance, from some states, to use it.

South Carolina was only using part of a system what had been the common practice of COMPROMISE; the Republicans, on the other hand, were set upon destroying the original relationship between the states and the federal government setup by the founding fathers found all the way back to the signing of Declaration of Independence. The Republicans were all about an idea of nationhood based on one common thought, not thirty-four independent ones.

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David Upton