Ron Paul vs. The Lincoln Cult . . .

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When people like Ron Paul cite the decades-long conflict over states' rights versus nationalism as a cause of the war, they are saying that the Southern states, like the New England Federalists before them, believed that the union was voluntary and that they had a right of freedom of association and of secession.  The Republican Party, on the other hand, insisted that the union was never voluntary, and was a one-way venus flytrap from which no state, and no citizen, could ever escape for any reason. Lincoln's regime "proved" its theory of the union to be "correct" at the cost of as many as 850,000 dead Americans according to the latest research.

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/10/thomas-dilorenzo/lincoln-cult-attacks-ron-paul/