“It is so amusing to see Lost Causers argue to defend their side’s position on continuing slavery for economic and social reasons as a so-called state right.”
Funny, the North had slaves, too, yet, you argue that only the South had them and wanted to keep them.
Governor John Willis Ellis to dishonest abe Lincoln:
Your dispatch is received, and if genuine, which it's extraordinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in reply, that I regard the levy of troops made by the administration for the purpose of subjugating the states of the South, as a violation of the Constitution, and as a gross usurpation of power. I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country and to this war upon liberties of a free people. You can get No troops from North Carolina