Republican (constitutionalist) former President Jefferson writes in a letter to William H. Crawford, Secretary of War, writes on the Article X of Amendment power of the States to secede from the Union: “[I]f any state in the union will declare that it prefers separation with the 1st alternative, to a continuance in union without it, I have no hesitation in saying ‘let us separate.’”
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References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War, (Roseville, California: Prima Publishing, 2002), 87(n3).
Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 20 June 1816
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Crawford
Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act? by James Ostrowski
www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski31.html
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