*"I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the
constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of
our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the
maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to
the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the
general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government.
I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system,
whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to
be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor
of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.
I need not refer one so well acquainted as you are with American
history, to the State papers of Washington and Jefferson, the
representatives of the federal and democratic parties, denouncing
consolidation and centralization of power, as tending to the subversion
of State Governments, and to despotism."
- Robert E Lee, Dec 1866 - replying to a letter from English Historian,
Lord Acton
*
Lincoln wasn't about keeping the states together, Lincoln was all about
a single all powerful republic. Read up on his mentor, Henry Clay, and
the "American System", a precursor to a corporate state.
TC
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The succession of the southern states was predictable based upon the
belief that individual states were very much like independent
countries, and at the time of the nation's founding, that was the
perception.
Lincoln was right regarding the importance of keeping the nation's
states together, because quite frankly, the USA probably would not
exist had the south succeeded in succession.
Indeed, the military might of the North and South would not likely be
directed toward common enemies, as the alliances arising from
successful southern succession would be in stark contrast to those
forged with the north. Would we ever see peace in North America?
Perhaps, but not until we'd suffered several more wars, some of which
would have been introduced by rival European nations.
Jerry aka LGO
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