On June 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the battleground in Gettysburg, Pa., and delivered a speech that will forever be known as "The Gettysburg Address."
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
We are a democracy, a government elected by the people. As much as some people may not like the results, this is democracy at its finest, and any call for secession is an affront to the concept of democracy.