To: rebelyell
Well, I'm back to argue with you Neo-Confederates.
I'm just going to ask you a question. The South was acting outside the bounds of the Constitution. What should have compelled Lincoln to follow it if the South wouldn't? Should he have followed it in the manner you wanted, and have destroyed the country for which the Constitution was written?
To: republicanwizard
Where did the Constitution say there was no right to secession? Was the compact not voluntary? Per the 10th Amendment, the rights not delegated to the collective government fell back upon the states...and that included the right to withdraw from the union.
I am afraid your view of history is tainted by ignorance. You are not alone...millions of Americans have been taught a history that did not happen.
To: republicanwizard
let's just for fun put you in lincon's place.
how many hundred thousand people, about 1/2 civilians, would you be willing to kill to perserve the union, from a group of states that wanted LIBERTY?
a union which only exists by coercian seems to me to be WORTHLESS.
FRee dixie,sw
377 posted on
04/17/2003 9:19:52 AM PDT by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. : Thomas Jefferson 1774)
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