Thread: Texas secession?

Originally Posted by MadLib

I pretty much already have an opinion formulated: The Union was good but not all good, it had the moral superiority over the CSA, but perhaps could have made better efforts to end slavery. I would study it for entertainment value; I already study history, especially Napoleonic wars.

And that is fine. Continue in your study. That is all I ask.

Quantrill

Originally Posted by Centinel

They may not wish to. They may secede; they don't have to secede.

Apparently some claim they do want secede, such as Texas. So why doesn't Texas Gov. Perry propose getting a majority vote of the people in his state to get the ball rolling for secession? Why even bring the topic up if he and his cohorts had no intention of seceding?

I suspect that the civil war southern states never tried to get a majority vote of the population in their states before their legislatures acted on their own accord to secede. Which is probably another reason why the southern states seccession was unconstitutional. Because the constitution preamble says, We the people of the United States, it doesn't say we the "Politicians of the Southern United States."

Originally Posted by Moot

Apparently some claim they do want secede, such as Texas. So why doesn't Texas Gov. Perry propose getting a majority vote of the people in his state to get the ball rolling for secession? Why even bring the topic up if he and his cohorts had no intention of seceding?

Who knows? I imagine that he doesn't think the people of Texas wish to secede right now.

Originally Posted by Quantrill

....We do not treat half of the country as evil and attack it...

that's ironic, as the CSA violently started the war, and seized private property.