Was the Confederacy constitutional?

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

What I am pointing out with the Declaration - which is the document you used to help you justify the rebellion - the listed grievances against the Crown are far more grievous than the grievances the southern states made against the federal government.

I don't believe this either. The American colonies were created by the British government, the States created the Federal government. By right, the colonies were OWNED by the British government, the Federal government never owned the States, since the States were responsible for creating the Federal government. The Southern states had more of a legitimate right to secede than the Colonies had to secede from Britain.

 

[Minister of Truth]

This is where we fundamentally disagree. Federal government confiscating or rendering useless, your personal private property, is NOT light or transient, it is an outright violation of your fundamental rights under the Constitution. Granted, it was not right to consider slaves personal property, but that WAS the law, the courts had deemed slaves to be personal property. At the time, the southerners did have a legitimate Constitutional argument, whether they were morally justified in their views of the time, is beside the point. It's easy for us to judge them today, by today's standards, laws and views, but that is not intellectually honest or fair.

Perhaps you could list the exact numbers of slaves and the tonnage of personal property that the Patrician States confiscated from the Plebe States?