I'm not saying, threaten. I'm saying DO IT.
In an orderly way. Why do we want Secession? To preserve law and order at the local and State levels. To prevent Federal goons from doing neighborhood searches for guns, gold, stored foodstuffs, young girls, and anything else that would be of interest to them.
Not saying you get twelve of your closest friends to mass up with guns at the state lines. The STATE LEGISLATURES have to do this. With, of course, consent of the State citizens - which the State legislature is going to have to solicit. Or else claim emergency powers to enact Secession.
Obviously it won't work everywhere.
A lot depends on the Governor of the State. How much? When Virginia finally passed an act of secession, Maryland had been poised to vote on such, but from a strategic standpoint had to wait for Virginia. Had Virginia not seceded and Maryland had, that would not have gone well.
Neither did what happened.
With the Federal District between the two, Maryland militiamen were told to bring their arms to their armories, leave them, and await the call out by the Governor.
It never came, as the governor was in cahoots with Lincoln.
Maryland was invaded by the state armies (militias) of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Maryland was a very Southern State, a slave state, and leaned heavily toward secession. That invasion was met with vicious riots, especially in Baltimore, rail lines were pried up and bridges burnt to slow the progress of the Northern troops. The MD state legislature was placed under house arrest at Fort McHenry and not allowed to vote on secession until many terms had expired and the legislators had been replaced with ones more sympathetic to the Federal Forces.
Marylanders went to Virginia and signed up to fight for the Confederacy. Not all, but consider that 4 (four) people voted for Lincoln in the MD County I grew up in. They were, as I have been told, asked to leave. Two had tragic fires. Maryland remained an occupied state through the war.
(The state song makes reference to the Baltimore riots, and was written during the war by an expatriate Marylander in Louisiana.)
A couple of lessons there.
Whoever people would have lead must absolutely be trustworthy. DO NOT TRUST A POLITICIAN.
The Governor of Maryland was not trustworthy, from the standpoint of those Marylanders who would defend their home soil against aggression. John C. Breckinridge had carried the state in the election, and a glance at the election map of 1860
http://www.270towin.com/1860_Election/interactive_map pretty much tells one where sentiments lay, and the Governor's actions ran contrary to those. Had the call-up been in more local hands, a defence might have been mounted.
Some may argue what happened was best, I will not argue that one way or the other. I am providing an historical example of betrayal by political leadership, and to anyone who might find this relevant, it is likely they would be on the side betrayed, as they would be looking at it from the vantage point of a secessionist.
Do not ever leave your kit. Keep your arms and gear where YOU can get them, and not under the control of someone else. Had the Militia been able to meet the invasion, (Their battle rattle was locked away in the armories) the whole conflict may have been much shorter and had a different result.