A government that insists on preserving the Union is a government that insists on holding power over its people.
Everyone talks about "the government or "a government", what if more than half the United States thought that the Union as it existed was worth preserving, period. Lincoln did not act alone.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
