Amendment 10
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The power of secession is not given to the federal government, nor is it prohibited to the States. Therefore, under the 10th Ammendment, it is reserved by the states or people.
Further evidence that the States are just that, sovereign states, and that our allegiance is NOT to the federal government and its flag, but to our states:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
Notice, the words "them" and the significance of that?
And as for Lincoln's claim that he had sworn an oath to keep the union together, not at all:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
He merely swore to uphold the Constitution, not the union. And the Constitution states the power of seccession is reserved to the states, under Ammendment 10.
And why, must I ask, would the founders have prohibited an action in the Constitution that they wrote, which not many years earlier they themselves had engaged in, and they had written and/or signed a Declaration of Independence, stating people have the right to replace a government or break away from one?
And wasn't Lincoln imposing involuntary servitude when he imposed a draft?
Ammendment 13:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
And the "Emancipation Proclamation" freed no one. It did not free slaves in the border states, over which the North still had control. Nor did it free Southern slaves, since they were not under federal control at the time. It was a clever piece of propaganda to get people thinking they were fighting to free slaves, when in fact, they were fighting to expand the size and power of the federal government.