Well that isn't what Lincoln said. He said nothing about responding to an attack. In his April 15 proclamation that initiated war it was all about forcibly maintaining the National Union.
He called up 75,000 soldiers for the purpose of suppressing the "combinations" that were in control of several states and that had the audacity to leave the union and form their own nation.
Like King George before him, he wasn't going to sit idly by and watch his territory leave. George's 1775 proclamation to Parliament reads remarkably like Lincoln's proclamation 90 years later.
Lincoln's Proclamation April, 15, 1861:
A Proclamation by the President of the United States, April 15, 1861
George's Proclamation August 23, 1775:
>>Pelham wrote: “Well that isn’t what Lincoln said. He said nothing about responding to an attack. In his April 15 proclamation that initiated war it was all about forcibly maintaining the National Union. He called up 75,000 soldiers for the purpose of suppressing the “combinations” that were in control of several states and that had the audacity to leave the union and form their own nation.Like King George before him, he wasn’t going to sit idly by and watch his territory leave. George’s 1775 proclamation to Parliament reads remarkably like Lincoln’s proclamation 90 years later.
Good post. I added that as a reference in my Research Library.
BTW, I previously quoted an author who stated that Lincoln’s long train of abuses and usurpations read like a check-list of King George’s atrocities, as listed in the Declaration.
Mr. Kalamata