Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During The War Between the States (1869).
A few more words, and we shall be in a condition to answer the question which stands at the head of this chapter. Being a legal question, it will depend entirely upon the constitutional right the Southern States may have had to withdraw from the Union, without reference to considerations of expediency, or of moral right; these latter will be more appropriately considered, when we come to speak of the causes which impelled the Southern States to the step. I have combated many of the arguments presented by the other side, but a few others remain to be noticed.
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“Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are sovereign.
ReplyDeleteToday, the gov of these united countries has become the cruel
master rather than the obedient servant of the citizens.
Time to separate as we are not longer unionized.
Amen.
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