"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. ... Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit."
~ Abraham Lincoln, Speech in the US House of Representatives, 1848
1 posted on
07/24/2015 6:56:31 PM PDT by
NKP_Vet
To: NKP_Vet
I think we did this one already.
2 posted on
07/24/2015 6:58:36 PM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: NKP_Vet
3 posted on
07/24/2015 7:03:40 PM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
To: NKP_Vet
5 posted on
07/24/2015 7:07:08 PM PDT by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: NKP_Vet
Walter Williams would look good on the Supreme Court.
6 posted on
07/24/2015 7:08:51 PM PDT by
Former Proud Canadian
(Save Western Civilization. Embrace the new Crusades.)
To: NKP_Vet
Walter Williams wrote:
"The War of 1861 brutally established that states could not secede." No. It established that tyranny can be enforced at the cost of 600,000 lives for an uncertain amount of time.
The recent nonsense regarding the Confederate Battle Flag simply illustrates the tyrannical nature of the victors in that war.
To: NKP_Vet
Why does the author consistently, insistently and repetitively refer to the War of the Rebellion as, the “War of 1861”?
8 posted on
07/24/2015 7:16:47 PM PDT by
HandyDandy
(Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
To: NKP_Vet
As far as our government is concerned we can withdraw from the union whenever we want. We just have to be able to defend and hold our land. The way it is now. The way it has always been.
9 posted on
07/24/2015 7:18:31 PM PDT by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: NKP_Vet
On March 2, 1861, after seven states seceded and two days before Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration
so question....why did these state secede? Lincoln had not taken office so what act had he done to the states as he had no power....let Lincoln say what offense he though he has commited
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres31.html Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1861
12 posted on
07/24/2015 8:02:12 PM PDT by
tophat9000
(SCOTUS=Newspeak)
To: NKP_Vet
Walter Williams makes a valid and cogent case for secession.
13 posted on
07/24/2015 8:05:46 PM PDT by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
To: NKP_Vet
Walter Williams what a great piece. This man gets it.
To: NKP_Vet
There is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits states from seceding; thus, they have the right to do so.
16 posted on
07/24/2015 8:43:45 PM PDT by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: NKP_Vet
22 posted on
07/24/2015 10:01:43 PM PDT by
gattaca
(Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
To: VR-21
25 posted on
07/24/2015 10:49:21 PM PDT by
VR-21
To: NKP_Vet
The NYT was agitating for war against the south and just like today did nothing but propgandize against freedom from federal tyranny.
27 posted on
07/24/2015 10:53:42 PM PDT by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA)
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