f Lincoln had desired peace, he knew all he had to do was evacuate Fort Sumter, as his own secretary of state had been promising would be done for weeks. When the Confederate authorities were told the fort was going to be evacuated, Confederate forces stopped building up the defenses around the harbor and celebrated. Across the harbor, Major Anderson was grateful the fort would be evacuated and that therefore North and South would separate peacefully

(Cisco, Taking A Stand, pp. 105-106).

>>17782675 (OP)
If*

>>17782675 (OP)
There is no way a country would ever allow half its people to unilaterally declare secession. Asking for that is about as reasonable as Indians asking the US to stop expanding west; regardless of your moral beliefs there's just no conceivable universe where that happens.

Lincoln was a unionist who'd stop for nothing to maintain the unity of the United States. War, abolition of slavery etc. All permissible for the glory of the union.

>>17782721
this.

Whether you agree or disagree is irrelevant. He did what he would do. This isn't complicated

>>17782711
>>17782721
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Dixietards will never come to terms with this though because they insist on putting nigger-breeding before the Union
>nnnoooooo you can't just take away the heckin niggerinos jobs and give them to the poor white people of the South rrreeeeeee
Dixiefags are nigger-lovers. Simple as

>>17782675 (OP)
>It's entirely in the sitting president to kowtow to the demands of armed rebels demanding the surrender of federal property
Fuck off rebel scum

>>17782711
The US isn't a country, it's a confederacy. The only reason the federal government was created was for protection from invasion. The first thing the north did was pass massive tariffs on everything because they were imperialists that wanted their own british empire

>Grants Congress the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises. It also stipulates that "Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States".

Taxation was not uniform, it unfairly targeted anybody who wasn't an owner of an already established large scale manufacturing business

>>17783404
The most foremost case of projection considering that a Union victory guaranteed radical abolitionists to permanently destroy the demographics of the Union by freeing and displacing freed slaves in the states. A Confederate victory would ensure a more cohesive Union and allow northern Yankee culture to remain in-tact. We neither have Dixie nor Yankee culture because the people and their State is less important than the centralized Union itself. Lincoln did not “preserve” the Union, he transformed it into something else. The only way to rationalize a Union victory as being desirable is if you love niggers more than Americans.

>>17783415
>b-b-b-but the North freed them
We wouldn't have had even a fraction of their population if Dixietards hadn't insisted on keeping the slave trade going for another 20 years with Constitutional protection you stupid fuckwad. You have no basis to stand on because the South insisted on breeding the slaves the North freed
>nnnnoooooooo profiting from trafficking people is... le based!
There's a special circle of hell for people like you

>>17783424
nignogs were already at critical demographic mass by the time the constitution was signed, you're retarded and ignorant of history

>>17783426
And whose fault was that? Not the North.

>>17783430
>i need somebody to blame!
then blame the north that set all the niggers free and created this communist hellscape we live in today

>>17783431
>b-b-b-but they set them free
So you're saying human chattel slavery is based?

>>17782675 (OP)
Imagine leaving the union because you don't like the results of an election.

>>17783431
Yeah, they would have clearly remained free whipped labor for 200 more years

>>17783426
>>17783431
You aren't even American

>>17783488
Are you saying you don't have an argument?

>>17783628
Answer the question faggot

>>17783633
Why would I care about an institution that preexisted the creation of the country? did anybody try and amend the constitution?