So...you're saying that Sumter attacked the confederate fortifications in Charleston and not the other way around?
It was a Lincoln packed SCOTUS, led by Chief Justice Salmon Chase (Lincoln's Treasury Secretary and long time hater of Southerners, who should have recused himself) that legislated from the bench, a method that conservatives usually abhor.
Yes, yes, yes, the grand old Southron whine "It was a packed court..." Well the same member of that court who wrote the majority opinion in Texas v. White also advocated the opinion that led to your boy Jeff Davis avoiding trial for treason. How can he be right in one area not in the other?
The above would suggest that the court allowed the possibility of divisibility of the union.
I read the same thing into the decision that you do, and that Madison stated. Secession is not illegal if done in a constitutional manner. And that manner is with the consent of the other states, or at least a majority of them. The Southern states did not follow this course, they walked out without discussion.
He ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the waging of war on noncombatants (Shermans march)...
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Right? They weren't right in either case. In both cases they acted out of political expediency to muffle the truth.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
600,000 plus dead is a joke? You're a very sick man.
Right? They weren't right in either case. In both cases they acted out of political expediency to muffle the truth.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
600,000 plus dead is a joke? You're a very sick man.
Right? They weren't right in either case. In both cases they acted out of political expediency to muffle the truth.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
600,000 plus dead is a joke? You're a very sick man.