UNDER CONSTRUCTION
This section will try to explain why the South felt compelled to secede and believed they had the moral and legal right to do so. We will use the Founders’ own writings to explain. Jefferson’s words below help the thought process. One size was never meant to fit all and domestic power was supposed to be reserved to the Creators of the federal government, THE STATES.
“The extent of our country was so great, and its former division into distinct States so established, that we thought it better to confederate as to foreign affairs only. Every State retained its self-government in domestic matters, as better qualified to direct them to the good and satisfaction of their citizens, than a general government so distant from its remoter citizens and so little familiar with the local peculiarities of the different parts.”…Thomas Jefferson