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Lincoln – in my mind, the worst president this country ever had, including all the McKinleys and Roosevelts and Wilsons and Trumans and Bushes, none of whom could have inflicted their damage without Lincoln’s embracing the principle of the primacy of the totalitarian state – negated any pretense to a "social contract" justification for the United States.

BUMP!!!

When William the Conqueror subdued England he gave them law at the point of the sword; and until we consent that the seat of government in America, be legally and authoritatively occupied, we shall be in danger of having it filled by some fortunate ruffian, who may treat us in the same manner, and then, where will be our freedom? where our property?
-Tommy Paine "Common Sense" 14 February 1776

But we insist that this Union shall not be held together by force whenever it shall have ceased to cohere by the mutual attraction of its parts; and whenever the slave States or the cotton States only shall unitedly and coolly say to the rest, "We want to get out of the Union," we shall urge that their request be acceded to.
- New York Tribune of 16 November, 1860

A union held together by the bayonet would be nothing better than a military despotism.
-New York Herald of Friday, 23 November, 1860

Lincoln – in my mind, the worst president this country ever had ....

A few of us agree. The rest of the sheeple just plod along, admiring their continued loss of freedoms and the creation of the socialist nanny-state.