[sheltonmac]

Having exercised his power to determine that no lawful government existed in the so-called seceded states, he then used the powers vested in him "as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States" to suppress the actual and armed rebellion.

That's a lot of power to give to one man. I wonder...who gets to make the determination that no lawful government exists in Washington?

[WhiskeyPapa]

That's a lot of power to give to one man. I wonder...who gets to make the determination that no lawful government exists in Washington?

That's why the president can't even get the grass cut on the White House lawn. Congress has to fund it.

It may not be the best system, it's just the best one anyone has come up with.

You neo-rebs wail and whine about mean old Lincoln. He was supported in everything by the people and by the Congress.

Ponder on what Aleck Stephens said.

No matter --what-- Lincoln's policy was, he couldn't carry it out in the face of a hostile Congress. The south threw away their one trump card, and traded it for what, 250,000 dead and a ruined economy?

Walt