John J. Crittenden proposed a plan to satisfy the southerners, but Lincoln didn’t approve it so South Carolina elected to dissolve the Union. Many southerners insisted that they could get out of the Union legally while the northerners said that they couldn’t. Lincoln stated that they couldn’t dissolve the Union in a legal way using these words: No State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union, that resolves and ordinances to that effect are
John J. Crittenden proposed a plan to satisfy the southerners, but Lincoln didn’t approve it so South Carolina elected to dissolve the Union. Many southerners insisted that they could get out of the Union legally while the northerners said that they couldn’t. Lincoln stated that they couldn’t dissolve the Union in a legal way using these words: No State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union, that resolves and ordinances to that effect are