The Bangor (Maine) Daily editorializes: [The Union] “depends for its continuance on the free consent and will of the sovereign people of each State, and when consent and will is withdrawn on either part, their Union is gone.”

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Subsequent Events:

1/12/1861                   3/4/1861                   4/13/1863                  6/3/1863

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References:

Thomas DiLorenzo, Lincoln Unmasked: What you are not supposed to know about dishonest Abe, (New York: Crown Forum, 2006), 26.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,213,561,491,981

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