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Who graduated near the top of his class from Harvard Law and taught Constitutional Law at Chicago Law…</p>
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You blame Lincoln for the Federal Government using the powers that the States gave them in the Constitution? The North had control of large swathes of the South, much of it to the west. The news would also travel into the South, giving those fighting to free the slaves hope and legality, not to mention the political effect it had in the North. Most of the North had already freed their slaves. If I remember correctly it was only the border states of Maryland, Delaware, and the new West Virginia which had not. And besides, the States, in rebellion, acted extra-Constitutionally, if not un-Constitutionally. </p>
<p>I’m not even going to bother relying to the rest of the garbage you posted. Reductio Ad Absurdum should take care of most of it.</p>