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
I think it is referred to as Tyranny by majority.
The North was making good money off the South while contributing little.
"Preserving the Union" was holding captive an entire region who wanted no part of that Union any longer.
Even today... should this generation of Texans be inseparably bound to 49 other States because of treaties or laws passed by previous generations?
If you say that Texas exists only as one of the United States of America, then you have no argument for the USA claiming any Sovereignty among the other nations of planet earth.
