Jarlaxle continues to demonstrate his ignorance. All the colonies until 1774 and 1775 were slave colonies. None of the middle Atlantic and NE states would have supported the South. That was very clearly in 1814, which was about amendments not secession. And in 1832, Jackson would have hung the South Carolinian leadership summarily if they had tried to take the state out of the Union.
Jarlaxle, don't revise history you flatly do not comprehend.
Even if the founding fathers did not support slavery and most of them were abolitionists themselves, they would have supported secession and the rights of states to leave the union. That was the whole point of the Revolution.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
That was the way they felt. It is honorable to dissolve the political bonds and declare the reasons why.
What Jake knows about history could fit in a child's thimble with enough room left over for a thumb.
What American history that is taught in schools today would fit in a thimble. Truthful American History isn't taught at all. Instead we get wishful American History. The founders were atheists, they supported the right to abortion, they set up the welfare state and supported the rights of some people to the money of other people.
The founders did know what was going to happen to the country. They foresaw what we have today. Ben Franklin when arguing for passage of the Constitution said it wouldn't last forever, but only until the people become so corrupt they require a despot to rule over them. The insult is that we not only have become that corrupt, we not only need a despotic rule, but we're blaming THEM for it!