My......Oh My! Where or where do you find these types of articles?
Secession was in fact settled in 1865. The federal government, which has tanks, drones, all kinds of really effective weaponry, says that secession will not take place in the United States, Constitution be damned! Again, this was determined in April and May, 1865.
As McMacken correctly notes:
- The Civil War did not "settle" the issue. Well, it settled the issue in the way that I settled the matter of ownership of that Steve Garvey baseball card when I beat up that other kid and took it. (OK, that never happened, but you get my point.) Secession was never settled beyond the federal government's assertion that it has the right to kill people who try to exercise their rights protected by the Tenth Amendment.
- Concerning CSA President Jefferson Davis, "He was imprisoned
after the war, was never brought to trial. The North didn't dare give him
a trial, knowing that a trial would establish that secession was not
unconstitutional, that there had been no 'rebellion', and the South had
got a raw deal.---but he refused to ask the United States for a 'pardon',
demanding that the government either offer him a pardon or give him a
trial or admit that he had been unjustly death with. He died,
"unpardoned" by a government that was leery of giving him a
public hearing." --James Street, The Civil War
Regard$,
--MJ
"The cult of Lincoln was founded on 15 April 1865 when a single bullet altered what otherwise would have been his rightful place alongside history's bloodiest rulers. Up until the time of his death, Lincoln was denounced by nearly everyone in Washington, including the men of his own party and the members of his own Cabinet, as "a more unlimited despot than the world knows this side of China,"(3) "a despicable tyrant,"(4) "that original gorilla,"(5) and "a low, cunning clown."(6) He was ridiculed for his "halting imbecility,"(7) and his Administration was criticized for its "feebleness, faithlessness and incapacity,"(8) for being "an insult to the flag, and a traitor to their God,"(9) and for "dragging the Union to ruin."(10) Of "Ol' Honest Abe" it was asserted that "a hound might hunt Mr. Lincoln, and never find him by an honest scent."(11) Wendell Phillips, a leading Republican Abolitionist, viewed Lincoln as "a mere convenience [who was] waiting, like any other broomstick, to be used."(12)" -- Greg Durand
3. Wendell Phillips, quoted by Woodward, Meet General Grant, page 276.
4. New York World, 26 October 1864.
5. Edwin Stanton, quoted by Edmonds, Facts and Falsehoods, page 18.
6. Stanton, quoted by Charles L.C. Minor, The Real Lincoln (Wiggins, Mississippi: Crown Rights Book Company, [1928] 1997), page 42.
7. Editorial: "A Yearning for the Democratic Party," New York World, 15 April 1864.
8. Ibid., 2 June 1864.
9. Alfred R. Wooten, Attorney-General of Delaware, quoted by New York Tribune, 4 June 1863.
10. Wendell Phillips, quoted by ibid.
11. Wooten, quoted by ibid.
12. Phillips, speech delivered on 1 August 1862; quoted by Edmonds, Facts and Falsehoods, page 16.
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