So, in keeping with this supposed WRONG OF SECESSION,
then, why was this not handled as such? Buchanan did not fly hot over it... nor did Lincoln. He acted craven, and shifty, as if he knew he had not the Constitution backing him, nor the right to coerce a state back into the Union.
His actions speak for him, despite his grandiose speeches to the contrary. Was he a coward? Was he just certain that he would be seen in the wrong?
But if all this Monday Morning Quarterbacking is to be believed, why, then, didn't he stride purposely forward and take back HIS property, in the form of a state?
In another speech July 4, 1861, he actually LIES about the Fort Sumter reprovisioning escapade, saying it was for 'the giving of Bread, only'. What a liar! They can't eat munitions! And they were not yet hungry!
Yet, here he is, NOT following his idea of the founding fathers, and NOT DEMANDING that SC come back into the fold! Here he says that US property has been seized, elsewhere, and yet here he is, down there, playing footsie with the Rebs in Charleston harbor... First the STAR OF THE WEST was fired upon... and NO WAR OVER THIS? And here he meekly tries to throw in 'bread', and even himself says that the fort was useless save for starting trouble with the
itching ears of the North... He purposely exposed his own soldiers to danger in a foreign country by going against Anderson's written wishes not to attempt to throw in supplies BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT HUNGRY!
What gives, here?
As far as IN PERPETUITY goes, so long as amendments are possible, there is no IN PERPETUITY. The majority can vote out the whole Union and country, itself. After all, The Majority was trying to get a foothold to destroy slavery, the very backbone of the Southern economy, and previously, the Northern one, as well. How is that not destroying the Union?
And where would be the WRONG OF SECESSION, in trying to maintain the country to the ends for which it was established?
And at no point did the South surrender their sovereignty. Virginia actually said so in ratifying the thing! They were still able to 'get out of the Union' and the US government signed them on with this in mind...
So, where is this supposed WRONG OF SECESSION?
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then, why was this not handled as such? Buchanan did not fly hot over it... nor did Lincoln. He acted craven, and shifty, as if he knew he had not the Constitution backing him, nor the right to coerce a state back into the Union.
His actions speak for him, despite his grandiose speeches to the contrary. Was he a coward? Was he just certain that he would be seen in the wrong?
But if all this Monday Morning Quarterbacking is to be believed, why, then, didn't he stride purposely forward and take back HIS property, in the form of a state?
In another speech July 4, 1861, he actually LIES about the Fort Sumter reprovisioning escapade, saying it was for 'the giving of Bread, only'. What a liar! They can't eat munitions! And they were not yet hungry!
Yet, here he is, NOT following his idea of the founding fathers, and NOT DEMANDING that SC come back into the fold! Here he says that US property has been seized, elsewhere, and yet here he is, down there, playing footsie with the Rebs in Charleston harbor... First the STAR OF THE WEST was fired upon... and NO WAR OVER THIS? And here he meekly tries to throw in 'bread', and even himself says that the fort was useless save for starting trouble with the
itching ears of the North... He purposely exposed his own soldiers to danger in a foreign country by going against Anderson's written wishes not to attempt to throw in supplies BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT HUNGRY!
What gives, here?
As far as IN PERPETUITY goes, so long as amendments are possible, there is no IN PERPETUITY. The majority can vote out the whole Union and country, itself. After all, The Majority was trying to get a foothold to destroy slavery, the very backbone of the Southern economy, and previously, the Northern one, as well. How is that not destroying the Union?
And where would be the WRONG OF SECESSION, in trying to maintain the country to the ends for which it was established?
And at no point did the South surrender their sovereignty. Virginia actually said so in ratifying the thing! They were still able to 'get out of the Union' and the US government signed them on with this in mind...
So, where is this supposed WRONG OF SECESSION?
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