...eir selfish meanness; and, therefore, I am in favor of a Western Confederacy. I have paid tribute long enough to the looms and spindles of the East; I wish no longer to be the political packmule of New England ." They have taught me that when the burden becomes intolerable, I have a right to throw it off. They invented the word secede, and they have inculcated the doctrine that an oppressed people are justi...