Posted on 03/10/2010 6:35:02 PM PST by Idabilly
Well since the blood thirsty President didn't want to talk peace with the South Carolina Govt. the Feds were asked to leave. Of course, in response, the Goon re-inforced the garrison at Fort Sumter.
Read the Goons second inuagural speech, he admits it in that tome.
No, I do not agree.
Do we have the ability to secede? Sure. Does it depend on the circumstances? By George it does.
Do I think the circumstances merited the South seceding upon Lincoln's election? No.
But frankly, after the attack on Fort Sumter, all bets were off.
Lincoln said: “ ... in saving the union, I have destroyed the Republic. Before me I have the Confederacy, which I loath. *But behind me I have the bankers, which I fear
And, What then will become of my tariff?” Abraham Lincoln to Virginia compromise delegation, March 1861.
Would love to see a source of this quote. it doesn’t ring true.
Republicans/Whigs were always the party of the Northern Banks.
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