What gives me the creeps about the "mic" and "nonsensical" is that it seems like we are dealing with a habitual wife-beater type of psychological profile to wit: neo-Yankee socialist-federalist top down government type (in reality I know isn't true but gives me pause) and it makes me feel dirty. They are numerous which is scary. I swear, you two just get crazier and crazier with every post you make. People wonder why I join in on posts like this and I answer that you can't buy comic relief like what you two provide us for free.
On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President. In his inaugural address, he argued that the Constitution was a more perfect union than the earlier Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, but that the Articles had established the permanence of the Union in a binding contract. He called any secession "legally void"[4]. He stated he had no intent to invade Southern states, nor did he intend to end slavery where it existed, but that he would use force to maintain possession of federal property. His speech closed with a plea for restoration of the bonds of union.[5]
The South sent delegations to Washington D.C. and offered to pay for the federal properties and enter into a peace treaty with the United States.(surprised that wasn't deleted out by the fascist/federalists) Lincoln rejected any negotiations with Confederate agents on the grounds that the Confederacy was not a legitimate government, and that making any treaty with it would be tantamount to recognition of it as a sovereign government. However, Secretary of State William Seward engaged in unauthorized and indirect negotiations that failed.[6