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Indeed, even many Northerners had felt that the southern states were within their rights (though misguided) to secede; the expression of that view was "wayward sisters, go in peace".
I'm no lawyer, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Southern States were perfectly within their rights to secede. Wasn't it built into the original constitution?
Could be wrong, but I thought that that was the basis of the Southern view of the Civil War as the "War of Northern Aggression" which, if the Southern states were indeed within their rights to secede, it most certainly was!
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