[jmacusa]

Well how do General! Ain't seen you around these parts. I reckon the only ‘’states rights’’ Mr. Lincoln destroyed was the right to hold another human being in bondage. I suppose you'd agree that California has the right to deify the government over protecting illegal aliens against immigration laws as a matter of ‘’states rights’’?

[DiogenesLamp]

I reckon the only ‘’states rights’’ Mr. Lincoln destroyed was the right to hold another human being in bondage.

Well console yourself in the knowledge that it wasn't his intention to do so when he began his war.

[TBP]

Lincoln centralized power in ways that the authors of Amendment X did not anticipate. He did so to “save the Union,” thus denying the sovereign states their ultimate measure to take when the Federal government encroaches. It had nothing to do with freeing the slaves — as Mr. Lincoln himself admitted. Otherwise, he would have freed those in states that remained in the Union.