Franklin didn't miss that and his face got a little serious for a moment. It seemed fairly clear that there were family issues with Dolemeck, that would have to be addressed at some point in the near future. It might have been due to his mutation, or something else.

"Very few people in the United States really truly wanted a dissolution of the Union, except perhaps a few radicals. The Southern states saw succession as the only way of keeping what they saw as their way of life. Which included the right to own other human beings as property. Don't let revisionists tell you any different- slavery was at the heart of the Civil War."