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The America that they founded only lasted about as long as their natural lives.

Jefferson, like virtually the entire Southern planter class, would almost certainly have been a Confederate had he been alive in 1861. Even if Confederates bitched about him.

It is interesting though that much of the Virginia US officer corp remained loyal to the US. Including Winfield Scott himself, who was briefly commander of US forces.

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation. … To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.”
Thomas Jefferson, to John B. Colvin, September 20, 1810


"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Charles Hammon, August 18, 1821

Today's Supreme Court would consider tyrants to be a protected class under the civil rights act and permit the federal government the use of force to defend them.