GDG- What Abraham Lincoln had to say about sessesion

[Margaret D. Blough]

Alan,

There is also what he said in his famous February 27, 1860, Cooper Union speech about Southern threats to break up the Union if a Republican was elected president:

>>But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!" 
To be sure, what the robber demanded of me - my money - was my own; and I had a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own; and the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.<<
Regards,
Margaret

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle at hp.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> >From his first inaugural: 
> 
> "If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of 
> States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be 
> peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to 
> a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak—but does it not require 
> all to lawfully rescind it?" 
> 
> Respectfully submitted, 
> Alan 
> 
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