[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I can imagine a couple of border state lawyers having a discussion in the winter of 1860-1861 over the legality of secession. One of them says to the other, “I have a book here which demonstrates conclusively that there’s no right to secede from the Union,” and the other responds, “That’s just an old Story.”

LOL, yes. It also serves to illustrate that the sentiment in the union of the States before the Civil War was divided. This is true, even in the North, where Lincoln used broad police powers to suppress newspapers which editorialised that the South had the right to leave the union if those States chose to. The sentiment in favour of the legality and Constitutionality of secession was widespread before the war, Joseph Story and Andrew Jackson notwithstanding.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

This is true, even in the North, where Lincoln used broad police powers to suppress newspapers which editorialised that the South had the right to leave the union if those States chose to.

I'd rather have been a dissenter under Lincoln than in Jeff Davis's Confederacy. A dissenter's life expectancy was greater up North.