Fine.
The Declaration of Independence was a literary justification for a war waged in violation of the laws of the land.
Secession is a violation of the laws of this land. It's "unconstitutional". Secessionists are people seeking to violate the Constitution for their own gain and their own pleasure.
People who support secession should at least demonstrate the tiniest bit of maturity it would take to admit this truth, and to admit that what they have to do is gear up for war.
The pitiful children pushing the idiotic secessionist ideas today want to pretend they are supporting the Constitution, just as the disgusting Rodents of 1860 pretended they were defending the Constitution then. They were not then, and secessionists today are not defending the Constitution now.
The secesh of 1860 talked of war.
The childish secesh of 2021 talk of running away and hiding, and avoid all mention of the realities of the consequences of starting what they want to start.
Man up, people. If you want what you want, say so. Stop pretending it's Constitutional, because it is not. Stop pretending it will be easy, because it will be bloody. Stop pretending you will succeed, for you almost certainly will not. The secessionist movement of today isn't blessed with the kind of geniuses that made a successful nation out of the calamity of war in 1887.
If you think the conquest of the Southern States by the North reunified the Republic, think again. The fault lines run deep, and after a century of being treated like sh*t, the South still hasn't forgotten, especially the hypocrisy of those who violated the Constitution in order to "save it".
Now try to tell me that the Government in Washington DC is anything representative of the 80+million who voted for someone other than the puppet in the White House. I'm all ears.
If it comes to a war, it will be bloody. Secession was an attempt to split without the destructive bloodshed but the Union (Yankees) insisted on "reunifying" the States by force. They invaded the South, looted and burned their way along, and the claimed "moral high ground" of freeing slaves (which didn't come up until the war had been going for two years) was cause for riots among the conscripts in New York who would not go to war for that 'cause'.
While you might maintain that any attempt to secede would be doomed to failure, well so was the upstart colonies taking on the might of the British Empire. We are the producers, not the coasts, and while that is a similar situation to that of the South in the last conflict, the understanding that the states in secession would not be left alone is there, the precedent is established, and the conflict would have to be carried out as other than as strictly defensive. That part is understood, too.
I would love for our Federal Government to have an epiphany and start abiding by the rest of the Constitution, but it is likely that their only sticking point would be their rejection of any attempt to dissolve that covenant. At some point, conflict is inevitable along the current path. The only question is what form that will take. Will it be open, or will it be a real insurrection, or will it be people cowering behind their doors at night hoping the 'knock' won't come?
In the words of a Patriot, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty..."
Now go ahead and run howling back to your masters because someone dared quote Patrick Henry.