1860/11/14

       The Cincinnati (federal enclave of Ohio) Daily Commercial editorializes on the Right of Secession: “The Southern states should be permitted to work out their salvation or destruction in their own way rather than to attempt forcible coercion, to save them in spite of themselves.”

       [restored 10/3/2026]

Subsequent Events:

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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), 108.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$40,439,546,016,039

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