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A. Lincoln on secession
catgunguy
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Lincoln did articulate a view of secession that would have been heartily endorsed by the Confederacy: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." Lincoln expressed that view in an 1848 speech in the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting the war with Mexico and the secession of Texas.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/walter-e-williams/was-1861-a-civil-war/
He was always one to change his mind when it would work better for himself. He was a good corporate lawyer.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/walter-e-williams/was-1861-a-civil-war/
He was always one to change his mind when it would work better for himself. He was a good corporate lawyer.
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He was also going to ship blacks back to Africa
The war was not about slavery until Lincoln made it so. He saw that the North was losing the war in the early stages and made it about slavery to gain support for the Yankee cause.
quote:Originally posted by dennisnielsen
He was also going to ship blacks back to Africa
The war was not about slavery until Lincoln made it so. He saw that the North was losing the war in the early stages and made it about slavery to gain support for the Yankee cause.
And make it impossible for England or France to side with the South.