[ml/nj]

All that's nice, but then "Honest Abe" came around.

ML/NJ

[tacticalogic]

All that's nice, but then "Honest Abe" came around.

It's still nice, Abe's meanderings notwithstanding.

[RobbyS]

The Constitution is silent on the issue of secession. Why do you insist that the States had to right to secede? What was at issue was not legal but political. The Senate might have mediated the issues, since essentially it was then an assembly of ambassadors. But the Deep South had already abandoned that body.