Salinsky wrote:TEOTWAWKI wrote:"Of course the South was angry over the fugitive slave laws, but that affected less than three percent of the population in the South. The severe tariff laws affected all Southerners. The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This amendment was the basis of the doctrine of states' rights that became the antebellum rallying cry of the Southern states, which sought to restrict the ever-growing powers of the federal government. The principle of states' rights and state sovereignty eventually led the Southern states to secede from the central government that they believed had failed to honor the covenant that had originally bound the states together."
It is also significant to note that not one Confederate leader was ever brought to trial for treason.
No it's not.
"Malice toward none" was a critical principle for Lincoln after the war.
Too bad it didn't work out for him personally.
Lincoln was a terrorist leader....not sorry...