The Jeffersonian Secessionist Tradition . . .

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Using violence to force any state to remain in the union, once said the New York Journal of Commerce, would "change our government from a voluntary one, in which the people are sovereigns, to a despotism" where one part of the people are "slaves."  The Washington (D.C.) Constitution concurred, calling a coerced union held together at gunpoint (like the Soviet Union, for instance) "the extreme of wickedness and the acme of folly."

"The great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of American Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," the New York Daily Tribune once wrote, "is sound and just," so that if any state wanted to secede peacefully from the union, it has "a clear moral right to do so."
-Thomas DiLorenzo

Read on:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/thomas-dilorenzo/jefferson-was-right-5/

Jefferson was right.