Horse sh*t! The South wanted to leave the Union, Lincoln didn't want them to leave because he would lose revenue ... you know ... INCOME ... TARIFFS! Lincoln weaseled his way into getting a war going, called it a rebellion to sell it to the dummies up north. If you view things with the eyes of an early 19th century invdividual, you would understand that the Bill of Rights was seen as a prohibition against the Fed abusing its power ergo, the 9th and 10th amendments gave the Southern States the RIGHT to secede. Lincoln waged a war of subjugation on the Southern States, then left them saddled with a debt after the war that still hasn't been paid off to this day. Not to mention the Northern hordes that raped, pillaged and torching their way across the South the way the SS troops would wage war 80 years later. AND ALL WITH LINCOLN'S TACIT APPROVAL! No sir, don't even try to play that "saintly" Lincoln crap here!
But then by your posts, you like Presidents who subvert the Constitution to limit your civil liberties and in effect make you a "slave" to the government.
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This is also known as the "We wuz sooo stoopid we couldn't see through that durn Lincoln's plot and got snookered into shootin' fust" excuse.