Of course later, when the entire South moved to secede from the union, it led to the most violent war in our country’s history.
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Tolerating secession is not tolerable at any time or in any place.
Former New Hampshire governor and former U.S. Senator, Judd Gregg, is not exactly right. Thirteen colonies ratified the Constitution. Statehood had to be ratified for each of the other 37 states. Mayors cannot secede because their cities were never ratified. There is a constitutional mechanism for states to secede, but as you know the South did not get too far with that one.
The South did not commit treason, nor did Lincoln when he gave the country a war between the states rather than allow Confederate States to exercise their constitutional Right to secede.
Lincoln is the last person anybody should invoke trying to justify the Civil War with the slavery argument. Everything Lincoln did and said set this country on the road to federal government control.
Instead of civil war, Lincoln could have, and should have, worked within the Constitution if he felt so strongly about preserving the Union. Naturally, the Civil War would have been unnecessary had the South surrendered their Rights instead of defending them.
The fact is that Lincoln saw the Constitution impeding his will.
Lincoln is the last person anybody should invoke trying to justify the Civil War with the slavery argument. Everything Lincoln did and said set this country on the road to federal government control.
Instead of civil war, Lincoln could have, and should have, worked within the Constitution if he felt so strongly about preserving the Union. Naturally, the Civil War would have been unnecessary had the South surrendered their Rights instead of defending them.
The fact is that Lincoln saw the Constitution impeding his will.
Americans celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, but H.L. Mencken correctly evaluated the speech, "It is poetry not logic; beauty, not sense." Lincoln said that the soldiers sacrificed their lives "to the cause of self-determination -- government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth."
Mencken says: "It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of people to govern themselves."
The Real Lincoln
Walter E. Williams | Mar 27, 2002
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2002/03/27/the_real_lincoln
Mencken specifically objected to this:
THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION~THAT WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN~THAT THIS NATION UNDER GOD SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM~AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH
NOTE: Lincoln stole a constitutional Right from the South in addition to providing a blueprint for the theft of stealing states’ Rights from every state.
Nobody can make the case that America today is governed by, of, and for the people. Nobody can convince me that AMERICANS demanded open-borders, sanctuary cities, loss of their sovereignty, and everything else the federal government imposes on them. Everything the federal government does came from Lincoln’s blueprint. The result has been government by, of, and for the UNIC (United Nations/International Community) and illegal aliens.
Lincoln used his gift of gab to impose his personal belief on the country; i.e., holding the Union together. Almost every president after Lincoln behaved as though their personal moral code overrides the Constitution. The recent spiritual leader, Obama, took Lincoln sacrificing the Constitution for his personal moral certainty far beyond what all of the other dirty little moralists did to the country.
Bottom line: Lincoln can be blamed for the evils of today’s big government because he took the first step towards totalitarian government. Put it in perspective by examining all the harm that flowed from holding the Union together.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...n-Of-The-Party-Of-Liars&p=2797672#post2797672
First secede and everything else will fall in place. Analyze Communist goals for their cities and you will see they are trying to legitimate their Right to secede as the best path to political power.
They are taking a weak, dangerous and counterproductive path.
Judd Gregg: The South may now secede
By Judd Gregg
06/22/20 06:00 AM EDT
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/503825-judd-gregg-the-south-may-now-secede
By Judd Gregg
06/22/20 06:00 AM EDT
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/503825-judd-gregg-the-south-may-now-secede
Bottom line: After the shooting stops, nobody can secede from a Communist government. Russian Communists did not secede from the Czar, nor can any anti-Communist secede from Cuba, China, North Korea, Vietnam, etc.
Communists engineering the violence in city after city operate under the misguided belief that Americans fear making martyrs out of revolutionaries. So-called martyrs killed by their government has been a workable strategy since the Russian Revolutions. The Martyr Strategy will not work with a free people when tens of thousands of cannon fodder commit suicide when they are shot by fifteen or twenty million well-armed Americans.
In short: Americans will fight to the death before they surrender their guns to this fate:
Most of us were quite thin, malnourished, lacking vitamins and proper nutrition, but we were all in the same boat and we could do nothing about it as we had no arms to mount a rebellion to overthrow the Communist Party.
You Can't Miss What You Don't Have in the First Place
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
June 22, 2020
https://canadafreepress.com/article/you-cant-miss-what-you-dont-have-in-the-first-place
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
June 22, 2020
https://canadafreepress.com/article/you-cant-miss-what-you-dont-have-in-the-first-place
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