Walter,

Your qualifications are worth noting. President Lincoln did not willy-nilly 
call out an army, but acted with caution and reason in response to the 
demands to take over federal propery, such as Fort Sumpter, and such. For 
the life of me, I do not understand why the south pretends they were put 
upon by the war, when it was the south that fired the first shot. Had the 
south responded with courtesy and restraint with the commander at Fort 
Sumpter, who was in the right to continue his presence until recalled by his 
commander in chief, they could have averted the blood shed. The south was 
out for blood, and they got it!

Anne


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Waddell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:09 PM
Subject: 10132106Z08 Articles 9 And 10 And 1st Amendment


> "Lincoln never gave the US courts the opportunity to render an opinion on 
> the Constitutionality of secession.? He
> just summarily called for the raising of an army to invade the initially 
> seceding states --"
>
> The statement does not suit for any general examination of a timeline for 
> a "dejure" secessionist argument since
> both officials and ordinary citizens of several seceding states had 
> engaged and or were engaging in acts of
> violence against Federal persons and property.
>
> An argument for secession must be incident free of any act of violence or 
> call for violence to achieve credible
> review as provided for by the words set forth throughout the U. S. 
> Constitution -- using a literal reading thereof.
>
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