Just as it would be beneficial to the Union if it were to remove itself from the UN, WTO, LOST, NAFTA, IMF, etc. States should take back their independence and demand that the federal government respect Tenth Amendment rights or face secession. We would all be much better off.

Emperor Abe's "cause" was the prevention of the Southern market from leaving the empire. If this were permitted to happen, the entire Yankee industrial monopoly would have collapsed and what was left of the empire would further disintegrate. Therefore, the bloodsuckers in Washington D.C. would be left with nothing to do.

Brilliant, this reveals Lincoln's true position on the slavery issue. Any objective study of The War to Prevent Southern Independence will show that the war was over whether self-determination (the Southern cause) or imperial subjugation (the Yankee cause) will decide the fate of the Constitutional Republic, not slavery.

Well the first emperor of the American Empire got his wish.