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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To those who favor taking the sign down, hindsight is 20/20. At the time, U.S. President Buchanan told the southern states that they would be justified to secede:

Buchanan denied the legal right of states to secede but held that the federal government legally could not prevent them. He placed the blame for the crisis solely on "intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States", and suggested that if they did not "repeal their unconstitutional and obnoxious enactments ... the injured States, after having first used all peaceful and constitutional means to obtain redress, would be justified in revolutionary resistance to the Government of the Union."[56][/quote]

Buchanan was a Democrat who was pandering to the Democrats in the South because he was in a battle against Stephen Douglas.

In any case, he did say that secession is illegal.  As for whether we had the right to fight that, Fort Sumter made the issue irrelevant.[/quote]

Buchanan secretly made a deal with south carolina that he would not reinforce the federal bases in SC in exchange for SC not participating in any hostilities.  The union military then violated this agreement (which Buchanan hadn't told the military about) by sending reinforcements to fort sumter.  When SC saw that the agreement had been violated, they attacked.[/quote]

That has to be the most transparent excuse for the war, ever.  It is also not true.  http://americancivilwar.com/authors/Joseph_Ryan/Articles/Buchanan-Fort-Sumter-1860/James-Buchanan-Fort-Sumter.html

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Ok I stand corrected.  That was a fascinating read by the way, thanks.[/quote]

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