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To: DoodleDawg

Because the secession of the Confederate states was — at its root — an exercise of the principle of self-governance that Lincoln was describing.


223 posted on 01/20/2021 4:12:41 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: Alberta's Child
Because the secession of the Confederate states was — at its root — an exercise of the principle of self-governance that Lincoln was describing.

No, secession as practiced by the Southern states was the act in insurrection that Lincoln spoke of. Lincoln always recognized the right of people to rebel but he never said that the success of their rebellion was guaranteed or that the government had no duty to oppose the rebellion.

232 posted on 01/20/2021 4:25:44 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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