Walter,

Thanks for an interesting post.

What I wonder was what grievance Virginia had with the United States that 
could have supported a request to secede.

I have heard the arguments against the tarriffs that made imported goods 
more expensive than home-made ones. I've seen too much antique stuff in 
yankee country to be convinced that they were producing "inferior goods". As 
to the right to carry their "property" into other states which outlaw such 
"property", that has always seemed a rather indefensible position to me. The 
fact that the balance of power was changing in the Congress, with the 
admission of more non-slave states seems more like sour grapes than a valid 
reason to secede.

So, did Virginia have any good reason to secede legally?

Anne

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