General Robert E Lee. And the Union was voluntary. So it is like you have a marriage where both enter into the agreement voluntarily, and then one starts to abuse the other. Is there any question that one has the right to leave that arrangement? What right would the other party have to bring guns and cannon to the table to make the other party stay?

 I was thinking about General Robert E Lee and his devotion to do what is right at all cost. So I thought about what was he thinking at the beginning of the Civil War? And it occurred to me that he must not have been thinking about secession as much as the Constitution itself.(And as far as slavery went, the Supreme Court had decided the issue based on the Constitution in the Dred Scot decision. For the Constitution itself never addressed the issue so automatically it went under the 9th and tenth ammendment that everything not addressed in the Constitution goes to the states.). So as far as anyone could see, the North was trampling's the rights of the states. And the Union was voluntary. So it is like you have a marriage where both enter into the agreement voluntarily, and then one starts to abuse the other. Is there any question that one has the right to leave that arrangement? What right would the other party have to bring guns and cannon to the table to make the other party stay?