Shout the Battlecry of Freedom

So, here I am musing right now, listening to the Confederate version of the "Battlecry of Freedom." This morning, on a whim, I was reading Wikipedia's series on the History of Texas. I have to say I really do love the history of my state. It is unique and full of unexpected twists. For example, who knew that the Republic of Texas was the first nation in the world to ensure homestead protection from creditors? A tradition we nobly carry today. Also, following Mexico's example, they were the first State in the Union to declare property in a marriage, no matter what its source, the joint assets of both man and woman, unlike the Anglo-based law which deemed it all the husband's, even if it came from the wife's family or inheritance.

I live in a place with a wonderful sense of self and a monumental wealth of history and tradition, bursting at the seams, that one doesn't have to look far to find. I ended up on the wiki page of some secessionist groups. Now, I am not saying I advocate secession, but I think that it should be something permissible in a nation that says it is an collection of states. Texas vs. White (1870) decided that that was not the nature of the Union, but do small nations not have a right to be free, when they decide that greater nation to which they belong no longer serves their best interests? I wonder.