The beast was certainly let loose from its chains but I say the secessionists were the ones who lit the match. They didn’t secede in order to cooperate with the rest of the nation for they had no better venue for cooperation than that already present within the US Constitution. They seceded in pursuit of conflict with the North and the country was better off because Lincoln answered the challenge sooner rather than leaving it for a later generation and an even more bloody war.
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Our limited constitutional republic was destroyed.By Lincoln
South Carolina Commissioners to Buchanan Dec. 28, 1860:
Sir: — We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from the Convention of the people of South Carolina, under which we are “authorized and empowered to treat with the Government of the United States for the delivery of the forts, magazines, light-houses, and other real estate with their appurtenances, within the limits of South Carolina, and also for an apportionment for the public debt and for a division of all the property held by the Government of the United States, of which South Carolina was recently a member, and generally to negotiate as to all other measures proper to be made and adopted in the existing relation of the parties, and for the continuance of peace and amity between this Commonwealth and the Government at Washington.”
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