First And Second Inaugural Addresses Message July 5 1861 volume 2
First And Second Inaugural Addresses Message July 5 1861 volume 2
Lincoln Abraham
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The seceders insist that our Constitution admits of secession. They have assumed to make a national constitution of their own, in which, of necessity, they have either discarded or retained the right of secession, as, they insist, it exists in ours. If the)' have discarded it, they thereby admit that, on principle, it ought not to be in ours. If they have retained it, by their own construction of ours they show that to be consistent they must secede from one another, whenever they shall find it... the easiest way of settling their debts, or effecting any other selfish or unjust object. The principle itself is one of disintegration, and upon which no govern- ment can possibly endure. If all the States, save one, should assert the power to drive that one out of the Union, it is presumed the whole class of seceder pohticians would at once deny the power, and denounce the act as the greatest outrage upon State rights. But suppose that precisely the same act, instead of being called "driving the one out, " should be called "the seceding of the others from that one, " it would be exactly what the seceders claim to do; unless, indeed, they make the point, that the one, because it is a minority, may rightfully do what the others, because they are a majority, may not rightfully do.
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