Certain Quote by Belle Boyd

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did…

— G. Edward Griffin

“The Confederate States of America in 1861 was legally an independent government. The Southern states seceded by popular conventions of the people of each…

— Brion T. McClanahan

“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln.…

— Murray Rothbard

“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.”

— Clint Johnson

So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of…

— Charles Dickens

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a…

— Jefferson Davis

In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Thinking the move suicidal, Grant believed the South would stop short of the “awful leap” of secession.”

— Ron Chernow

The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.

— Jack Schlossberg

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party…

— Heather Cox Richardson

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of…

— Abraham Lincoln