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re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

Posted on 8/18/17 at 11:40 am to
Posted by WhiskeyPapa
Member since Aug 2016
9277 posts
Posted on 8/18/17 at 11:40 am to
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The South could have won a quick war, and almost did due to such low public support in the North at the beginning.


Not really.

4/15/61:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
A PROCLAMATION


WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been, for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law.

Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed.

The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department.

I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured. I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event, the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.

And I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date.
Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress. Senators and Representatives are therefore summoned to assemble at their respective chambers, at twelve o'clock, noon, on Thursdays the fourth day of July next, then and there to consider and determine such measures as, in their wisdom, the public safety and interest may seem to demand.

By the President:ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Secretary of State WILLIAM H. SEWARD

Reaction and Resistance[edit]

Rather than a call for 75,000 military volunteers from any American state or territory, the two proclamations called for a specific number of volunteers from each state, including slave states in the South that had not yet declared their secession.

Several Northern states communicated enthusiasm, with states such as Indiana offering twice as many volunteers as requested.

Massachusetts volunteers reached Washington DC as early as April 19.[4]

-wiki
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
35893 posts
Posted on 8/18/17 at 11:46 am to
I don't read any of your copy pasta.
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