"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. --Abraham (Spooning Abe) Lincoln January 12, 1848
I am encouraged that, as they gain political sophistication, many Americans are beginning to see this tyrant for what he is. He was considered a liar and the Bill Clinton of his era. Don't take my word on that; check it out; you will find it true by going to the original sources; --such as Linkum's own speeches and newspaper accounts of the day (in which you can find opinions of people from all sections of the area that then comprised the united states of America.)
No one is denying a right to revolution. Presicent Lincoln was a great admirer of Thomas Jefferson. But nothing in Lincoln's words can be construed to say he supported legal secession. It is a lie to suggest that he did.
Walt