City Council establishes blue ribbon commission to review Lee Park statue (VA)

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2. There was no treason committed by the southern states

They were simple exercising their right to secede from a government that had been taken over by the new radical extremist party called Republicans. The party representing the "lunatic fringe" and very much like today's Tea Party. When the first group of southern states seceded, then president Buchanan ask his Attorney-general, Jeremiah S. Black for a legal opinion on the right of a state to secede. Black was a northerner from Pennsylvania who had dedicated his life to the study and rule of law. He was the chief justice of the Penn. supreme court before becoming atty general. Black wrote a 3,000 word report that stated all states had an inherent right to secede and that to try and force them back in the union by force would be an illegal, unconstitutional act.
When I see a confederate monument, I think of of the men who died trying to repel an illegal invasion of their states and I honor them.