I was in an exchange of message on another board with some real uneducated folks. Their basic argument is that the Confederate ware traitors and they wanted to destory our country (The United States). At this time none of there have been able to prove treason, or even the act of secession was illegal in 1861. Certainly not the first person has posted anything to show that the Confederacy’s plan was to destory The United States. As someone posted to this board we went into that war as the united states and came out The United States.
Here is what Lincoln had to say about oppresive government.
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.
“Honest” Abe Lincoln
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the national Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it.
First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1861
Washington, D.C.
Mark
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