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 Posted: Thu Jan 3rd, 2013 09:52 am
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 I really don't know what to think as far as the Constitutionality of secession. The original framers didn't want people bailing out because they wouldn't survive without each other. But it isn't really addressed either in the Constitution (I've read it but not a guru on it).

The North perspective was this. Lincoln didn't want to proside over the disintegration of the American Republic. We were a little over 80 yrs old when war came. We had just started to become a prosperous nation that was in the beginning stages of challenging the European Monarchies. We had a bright future ahead of us IF we stayed together.

The Northern soldiers that joined in 1861 and 1862 did it for love of the Republic. Their motivation was purely for the preservation of the Union above all else. Slavery was an after thought far down the list of reasons for enlisting. Republics didn't normally last that long in history. A lot of norherners wondered if this was the end of the American Republic when the south broke off. I know the CSA was heavily based on the USA but we both would have been weaker. So with the British all powerful in the world we would both be at their mercy.