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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.”
Any More myths?
"That terrible man, Non-Sequitur is at it again!"
"Don't worry Ma'am, Seems like Idabilly and Cowboyway have this thread under control...."
Actually that process was started by folks like Alexander Hamilton (see Alexander Hamilton: A Biography by Forrest McDonald) and aided by the likes of John Marshall. Lincoln and his fellow travelers just applied the finishing touches using guns bayonets!