--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/24/06 9:23:31 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > And of course, regardless of constitutionality, secession could happen > if the "mother nation" simply does not object. In the years preceeding > the civil war, many, including Horace Greely, and many abolitionists, > advocated "let them go peacefully". > > Its Lincoln's argument that the ex-colonies / soverign states' > agreement to adopt the Constitution and enter the union was > irrevokable and eternal that does not find any basis in the > Consitution, or the ethos and mindset of free men and entities -- or > even basic logic. > > > > > While I can't give the exact quote or source of quote supposedly Lincoln at > one time said those states in the South can have their confederacy as long as > they continue to pay the federal tariff, which he had just doubled.
If you can find that quote, please post. > The war > was over economics, not some grand idea that the Union was inseparable or the > slaves needed to be free. Yes. See points and books cited in my Lincoln posts. >Secession by mutual agreement would also be a > horse of a different color as well. I've been saying since the 2000 election that > eventually the Blue states would make an effort to secede because our > political differences are too great. Or the Reds might do so first. Especially Texas. You guys have so much experience. Seceeding from Mexico, joining the Union, seceeding from the Union, etc... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
