The South did not withdraw peacably, the started the fight when they attacked Fort Sumter.
Battle of Fort Sumter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The north sent troops and ships to reinforce fort sumter and blockade the port after the south legally seceded and tried to negotiate. The south was very aware of the Anaconda Plan and were very sensitive to having a foreign nation blockade their harbors/exports.
Those are acts of war anywhere in the world.
You can't blame Lincoln for Reconstruction. This happened after Lincoln was shot by a Southerner.
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
First let's look at the Declaration of Independence.
These people tried to peacefully withdraw, too and THEY got invaded and fought off the invaders. You ok with defeating the british in 1776?
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The u.s. was formed with the consent of each individual state, when the founders wrote the constitution and debated it, they always said it was a states prerogative if they wanted to break away from the Union.
Alexander Hamilton and most of the founders believed it was well within the state's rights to leave the Union voluntarily if they wanted to.
Starting a war to collect taxes and imports was just as wrong as starting a war that violated a states right to secession
Lincoln was a lying POS.
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. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.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 many of the territory as they inhabit."
Abraham Lincoln
Jan 12, 1848
From his first inaugural address;
1861
Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that --
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:
Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming Administration. I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause -- as cheerfully to one section as to another.
General Sherman's march through Georgia was to break the South and force them to surrender.
So you're ok with murdering, raping and robbing fellow americans.... stealing their property, wrecking their infrastructure, burning their homes and businesses, denying them elected representation in the government...because they tried to peacefully withdraw?..
Let's see, then.... if your wife asks for a divorce do you think that gives you the right to beat her up and force her to stay?
The United States also bombed civilians during World War II, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties.
If you want to live a long and prosperous life, don't declare war against the United States of America.
They didn't declare war...they tried to peacefully withdraw.
...but anyway....Live and learn. Things change all the time. Nothing lasts forever. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
