GDG- Abe Lincoln - pro-secessionist????

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Folks, 
 
A friend of mine sent me this tidbit today and I wanted to share it with  
this list.  This certainly flies in the face of what Lincoln stated some  years 
later on.  This was published in the Nashville Tennessean newspaper  in 1981.
 
>>>"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power,  have the 
right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new  one that 
suites them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right - a  right 
which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right  confined 
to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose  to 
exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can may revolutionize and make  
their own of so many of the territory as they inhabit." 

Abraham  Lincoln
January 12, 1848.>>>>>
 
Greg Biggs 



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