Like Thomas Jefferson?
Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children & descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation at some future day, yet I should feel the duty & the desire to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power. (source)
Which says nothing about secession. The federal government, which includes the Supreme Court, have power over only that which the Constitution gives them. There's nothing in the Constitution prohibing secession. Therefore, according to the Tenth Amendment, that right remains with the states and with the people.
Just because a judge says something doesn't make it constitutional, especially when they base it not on something in the Constitution, but an illegal war. The very nature of the Constitution is that of a voluntary union. Many of the states were cautious about joining the union to begin with. If the union was really some kind of forever binding slave system, they never would have joined.
No he didn't. His argument came down to: 'the powerful industrialists slaughtered the poor agriculturalists, thus the former were in the right.'
And again, who cares what the pledge says? It's basically a pledge of worship to the state. Is it any surprise that it wants to bind people to it? If you don't have the right to not be associated with someone (to secede), that's not patriotism, that's slavery.
You keep brining up the pledge; why not the Declaration of Independence?:
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 to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, (source)