[tylerdurden]

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So what? Representation binds them absolutely?

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Not absolutely. 50.1% of the country can't make slaves of the other 49.9%, even if made law.

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But the union is free to enslave the confederacy? I don't understand where you're going with this.

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How can a nation founded on this idea oppose the voluntary seperation of any group?

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Can we be sure that all those in the South wanted such seperation?

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No, but thanks for yet another strawman. Of course, there were loyalists in the colonies, and there were northerners that opposed "reunification efforts".

I'm not here to defend the CSA. It certainly wasn't a paragon of virtue. However, the idea that any regime that isn't 100% completely legitimate is fair game for any other non-100% completely legitimate regime to conquer, subjugate, and pillage is, frankly, repulsive.