re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

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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.

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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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