Dixie ping
psst... General McClellan's first name was George, not John.
How very true! But it was not due to Lincoln's wonderful sense of humanity or love of it. Lincoln preferred political power over his duty as president. When someone order's the death of many within his own country, a sad and sorry excuse of a soul exists. He would be a happy camper if he could see all the governmental power over the people that resulted from his deranged hunger for power...
And it is a rather pathetic ploy to use a Bible passage to explain away Lincoln's lusty self...
Sure he was. And then he continued with those stirring words, "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half States’ Rights and (in a related note) slavery and half without States’ Rights and (in a related note) slavery. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of States’ Rights and (in a related note) slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new -- North as well as South.
Give it up. The division was over slavery. State's rights didn't enter into the picture except as an excuse to support slavery's spread.
there were also divisions within the Northern States...and divisions within the Southern States.