Was Secession Treason?
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/b...ssion-treason/
The answer was of course NO! Another long one, but definetly worth the read.
''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee