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re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?
Posted on 8/18/17 at 12:31 pm to WhiskeyPapa
Posted on 8/18/17 at 12:31 pm to WhiskeyPapa
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The neo-reb apologists to this day want to say secession was legal under U.S. law. It was not legal. This is borne out in the Prize Cases from 1863 and Texas v. White in 1869.
Good points, Walt.
I don't know why any CSA sympathizer today would wrestle over the issue of legality for the reasons I stated.
Thinking for myself, if I were a Reb back then, I wouldn't think about legality. I would think about serving my new nation at war, not about legality. I would have already made peace with my commitment to risk and maybe give my life for the new CSA. I would not have worried about the legality. I don't condemn those who do wrestle with the legality issue, because I suppose that it is a personal matter.
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