Originally Posted by
LiberalNation
My views are states should have the right to secede from the Union and the south was partly justified in it's behavior at the time but anyway.
States do NOT have the right to secede. At the time, nothing precluded a state from leaving the union as voluntarily as it joined.
Lincoln was not a good prez, a good prez would have avoided the war to begin with and not committed a genocide of his own country men.
Lincoln being elected President was the final catalyst that led to secession. He could not have avoided war without letting the CSA go its own way. Lincoln's conviction was that the Union had to be preserved at all cost. That is where the rubber meets the road and you either consider the Constitution a suicide pact, or you suspend parts of it temporarily in order to achieve the greater good ... the continued existence of those ideals emobdied within the Constitution.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke