Lincoln fought to save the union, not to free the slaves. Is it ok to kill so many to save the union? Probably not.Does a country have a right to exist, despite the will of its people? No.
Can it constrain the right to secede?
The Declaration of Independence was an act of secession. And isn't it self-evident that when a government "becomes destructive of those ends", the people may alter or abolish it,
or try to.
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try and fail. alas.
it's intriguing to me that somehow the seeds of violent force which were planted in the late 1700's and the birth of this nation came to flower, (in one of many ways) in the use of violent force against the confederates states of america.
One notices, for instance, that Canada, and Australia, who while they certainly have their foibles (see: indigenous peoples) with the horror of violence, managed to separate from England much more peacefully, and have also never had civil wars, and somehow just aren't perpetrating as much violence in the world.
Maybe I should take a personal lesson from this, and see to it that I do separations in the gentlest possible manner, choosing rather to suffer wrong than to engage in violence. Alas, I can't pull this sort of thing off even in simple day to day stuff.
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