James Everett
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- Nov 14, 2014
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There must have been a law or amendment to the U.S. CONstitution that stated that secession was illegal. Absent a law making something unlawful or illegal, it remains legal. The tenth amendment retained that authority to each individual State.Bill Moyers? Americans lost more than half a million of their best and bravest on both sides because the Lincoln administration did not have the intelligence or the emotional veracity to make a deal with the border states to put off a conflagration that would kill a freaking 6th of the population. Lincoln was the problem, not the solution.
Lest we forget, Lincoln didn't act in a vacuum. The northern states that remained sent people to Congress that demanded the rebellion be put down, passed budgets and laws and raised armies to do just that. Lincoln may have been in charge of the army but the northern states were the ones that ultimately decided the southern states had no authority to simply leave the union.
Maine had no problem telling Mississippi they couldn't leave.