One can still love this country, without loving Abe Lincoln ---
One can even love this country, and still love his homeland or state MORE!
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No, I have not given up on our Constitution, and I agree that it is the supreme law of the land; I have taken an oath, and take it seriously, to "protect and defend the Contstitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." My problem is that I have grave doubts that many of my "elected officials" take their oaths nearly as seriously as do I. Surely you can see that the federals have assumed much, much more power than is legitimately allocated to them in the Constitution. This is the crux of the issue, then (1861-1865) and now.
I do! That being said, do did Robert E. Lee, and other Confederates. When those rights were trampled on, war came!