[Partisan Gunslinger]

You’re right. They invaded because a petulant little man threw a hissy fit because he saw his revenues disappearing before his very eyes.

So, preserving the union had nothing to do with it, huh?

Your judgment on display.

[ought-six]

Preserving the Union for the revenues, you mean.

If the Southern states and its economy were not the chief bankroller of the Union’s tax base, and were instead a drain on the federal treasury, Lincoln would have said “Bravo!” to secession and “Good riddance!” to the seceding states.

Lincoln was a very, very small man; but his hagiographers immortalized him as some kind of god.

Lincoln set the stage for the eventual collapse of the United States as a Constitutional republic. His present-day soulmate, B. Hussein Obama, has completed the task.