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To: mac_truck
OK, who are you referring to with this statement, if not Lincoln?

According to the South Carolina declaration, "For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government". The answer to your question is, all presidents that served during those 25 years. Lincoln's announcement that he had no intention of enforcing the law when he took office, but rather to subvert it in favor of his political party's ideology, was, to be brief, the final straw.

You can read the entire South Carolina declaration at the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

858 posted on 09/28/2003 7:43:06 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau
Lincoln's announcement that he had no intention of enforcing the law when he took office...

In fact, President Lincoln said just the opposite.

"I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause—as cheerfully to one section as to another."

A. Lincoln, 3/3/61

I have seen some neo-rebs who were misinformed, and I have seen neo-rebs that would tell any kind of lie, but I have never seen one who was ignorant, would tell any kind of lie, and was as persistent as you are.

Walt

860 posted on 09/28/2003 9:05:13 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa (Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
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