Max Bluementhal has this article on Yahoo from Nation magazine.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070628/cm_thenation/45209093
Arthur Ravenal, who is heading Giuliani's campaign, had a speech defending secession in the Congressional Record, June 25, 1991. It was reprinted in the Vol. 11, 2nd Quarter 1991 issue of Southern Partisan, page 10.
This is the Congressional Record entry for the 102nd Congress:
SUPPORT FOR SECESSIONISTS (House of Representatives - June 25, 1991)
[Page: H4950]
(Mr. RAVENEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. RAVENEL. Mr. Speaker, I know that those who win the wars write the histories. However, I must take exception to a remark made by Mr. Solarz last week wherein he said,
Abraham Lincoln made the point that once the Southern States joined the Union, they were part of it permanently.
The fact was and still is that no constitutional prohibition of secession exists. Faced with this dilemma, Mr. Lincoln provoked the infant Confederacy into foolishly attacking Fort Sumter. He then declared the departing States to be in rebellion and called for 75,000 volunteers to suppress it. North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Virginia refused the call and joined their southern sisters. I join those who applaud todays secessions in the Soviet Union and around the world. But where were they in 1861? We're content, but we still stand when the bands play Dixie!
[Page: H4951]
[TIME: 1230]
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