As I say, lift what you will out of the context of the time. Less than one month after he said, that, L. issued the EP. That says it all.
BTW, please don't continue on that nonsensical "out of context" bs. I posted the whole quote.
He crapped all over the constitution and tried to have the CJOTSC arrested. He fixed the elections in Maryland by force of arms. He was no great President, unless of course, you think it's great to slaughter a whole generation of Americans to keep some states from doing what they were certainly allowed to do, morally and legally.
And just for the record, I'm from Chicago, i'm not a southerner. But I don't wear blinders and buy all the BS they sell in government schools. Is that where you teach?