To: sweetliberty
"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." - Abraham Lincoln (first inaugural address) I guess this did not apply to the South. By the way, Lincoln was a STATIST PIG THAT GOT WHAT HE DESERVED!
24 posted on
06/30/2003 6:00:40 PM PDT by
Comus
To: Comus
I'm no champion of Lincoln, but I do like the quote. And you're right, apparently it didn't apply to the south. And ever since the end of that war the states have lost more and more rights to the central government.
29 posted on
06/30/2003 6:05:54 PM PDT by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: Comus
I have never heard anyone speak of Lincoln's assassination that way, before.
30 posted on
06/30/2003 6:06:12 PM PDT by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
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