[Colonel Kangaroo]

I guess it depends on one’s point of view, but it seems to me like the main thing was the secessionists did not want to play the role of loyal opposition. A republic cannot survive if political setbacks are made into nation breakers.

[PeaRidge]

Don’t be a neo-Lincolnist imbecile.

4/1861: “It is becoming too evident, that so far as a vicious,...demoralized administration possesses power, the hideous horrors of civil war are about to be forced upon the country…the popular sentiment is everywhere peaceful, and the time cannot be distant when the shameful manner in which Mr. Lincoln and his cabinet are sacrificing the welfare of the land and betraying its most sacred interests, will call forth an outbreak of indignation before which even the Republican fanaticism and intolerance will tremble.”