"Williams: Virginia's Black Confederates"

"Did states have a right to secede? At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, James Madison rejected a proposal that would allow the federal government to suppress a seceding state. He said, 'A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.'" http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2010/11/williams-virginias-black-confederates.php GOPUSA » Commentary » Williams: Virginia's Black Confederates www.gopusa.com One tragedy of war is that its victors write its history and often do so with bias and dishonesty. That's true about our War of 1861, erroneously called a civil war. Civil wars, by the way, are when two or more parties attempt to take over the central government. Jefferson Davis no more wanted to ta 2 seconds ago