They insist that their children continue to be educated in leftist school, that their businesses be subject to leftist regulation, and their families be harassed by leftist federal agents. This all must be endured to avoid turning their backs on their country. The true nature of secession, however, is that it is moderate and nonviolent.
Secession never profits from violence, and it strives to conserve that which is valued in a society.
Unbeknownst to many, the most famous and articulate secessionists in American history are not folks with names like Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but people with names like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. The original Americans were secessionists, and they did it in order to preserve their society, not to destroy it. The founding generation saw that the American colonies were about to be radicalized. The surge in royal executive power during the 1760 s and 1770 s alarmed the colonists and they feared that their way of life might be destroyed. They did not wish to engage in regicide or to indulge in vengeful slaughter.