Enough With Your Lost Cause: The Treasonous Confederacy Was Never a Nation
From Abraham Lincoln’s first day as president, he had declared secession unconstitutional, the Confederate movement an insurrection, and their cause inhumane. Secession, he remarked in an early message to Congress, was “rebellion thus sugar-coated,” based on “the farcical pretense of
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Lincoln's view on secession
Abraham Lincoln, soon after becoming president in 1861, declared that secession—the act of a state leaving the United States—was unconstitutional and illegal.
He argued that states could not simply vote themselves out of the Union, comparing the Confederacy’s actions to a gang of robbers justifying their crimes by voting on them beforehand.
Lincoln called the secession movement an insurrection—a violent uprising against the legitimate government.
He stated that any acts of violence within states against U.S.
authority were either insurrectionary or revolutionary, depending on the circumstances.
This view framed the conflict as a struggle to preserve the Union, not as a war between two equal nations.
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