Your thesis that the Constitution repealed the perpetual Union is most peculiar. Even pro-Southerners such as James Buchanan and Stephen Douglas rejected this notion. Perhaps you are correct, and Lincoln, Buchanan, Douglas, and General Winfield Scott of Virginia among many others, are wrong. Three cheers and a tiger for General Scott, General George (The Rock of Chickamauga) Thomas, General Montgomery Meigs, and many other southerners whose loyalty to the Union facilitated the eventual quashing of the rebellion of the traitors.