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To: iowamark
No mention of the fact that secession happened long before Lincoln became President.

Your rehash is the one most blatantly absurd. Lincoln was not protecting the Constitution.

Each state was a voluntary member of the nation. They were under no constitutional obligation to stay under the federal system.

Killing hundreds of thousands of citizens, impoverishing the people and shredding the Constitution did nothing to preserve this nation.

26 posted on 12/15/2012 7:06:54 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Each state was a voluntary member of the nation. They were under no constitutional obligation to stay under the federal system.

And yet when the New England states were mulling over secession during the days of the Essex Junto and the Hartford Convention, Southerners accused them of "treason" for wanting to dissolve the Union.

82 posted on 12/16/2012 8:26:03 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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