[central_va]

Abraham Lincoln did everything in his might to keep the Union, the Republic, together!

A republic held together at the point of a gun isn't much of a republic.

How is it a state right to be allowed to succeed(sic) from the Union?

The USC is totally silent on secession. If you read what was written at the time, any no out clause for the states would have made the USC DOA, and would have never been ratified by the states. There are some misguided fools around here that would argue the opposite is true, I am not buying though.

The Civil War was never about states rights, it was about a rebellion trying to keep slavery!

Secession is not an act of war, only a fascist war pig and statist piece of crap jerkface would think that way. Not that you would think like that :)

[rockrr]

If you read what was written at the time, any no out clause for the states would have made the USC DOA, and would have never been ratified by the states.

But it was ratified, and without any "no out clause for the states" whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.

[Non-Sequitur]

Secession is not an act of war, only a fascist war pig and statist piece of crap jerkface would think that way.

Bombarding a fort is an act of war, only a fascist war pig and totalitarian piece of crap jerkface would think otherwise.

[JohnnyBibs]

A republic held together at the point of a gun isn't much of a republic.

Then are you arguing that Abraham Lincoln should have allowed the rebellion to form and maintain the Confederacy?

There was never any statue that allowed secession, it was then a choice of Union or Disunion; Lincoln fought to preserve the Union!

Secession is not an act of war, only a fascist war pig and statist piece of crap jerkface would think that way. Not that you would think like that :)

Secession might not be an act of war, but it was never legalized to the best of my knowledge; there is nothing wrong with what Lincoln did, which was to try and keep the Union united! I would have done just about the same if I was in his same position!