[metesky]

Still disingenuous...

Same speech, different interpretation:

Lincoln is not invoking a constitutional right to destroy the Union but the natural right of revolution, an inalienable right clearly expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln never denied this right. As he said in his First Inaugural of 1861. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." But the people's right to revolution is in tension with the president's constitutional "duty…to administer the present government, as it came into his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor."

You already read that but chose to ignore it.

[billbears]

Well you've got some explaining to do. The author I excerpted from is a worshipper as well. Two Jaffites fighting over what he really meant? I don't care. He was quite clear in his intent and meaning