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“The Union ...won’t be dissolved. We don’t want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won’t let you."
-Lincoln 1856
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“the power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government,”
-Lincoln 1861
You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.
-Lincoln 1861
“You will wantonly strike a hornet’s nest.... Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.”
-Confederate Cabinet Member 1861
