<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">As I recall(I may be wrong) after the Radical Republicans took over the reconstruction process, weren't the Confederate States placed under military rule, and then once they'd agreed to new constitutions that were acceptable to Congress, weren't those States then "readmitted" to the Union.
If that was the case then to be "readmitted" must mean that they had left in the first place. -Lt General Malcolm Hunt <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Absolutely! "Readmitted" is an admission that the South had left, but understanding the English/American language has always been a Yankee handicap. [:D]
... Also, realizing that a new thought is contradictory to a previous rule already voted on and accepted as law. [:D]
It can be difficult to consistently maintain a line of thought that includes several ideas. [:o)] [;)]
While proclaiming that secession is prohibited, the North also let West Virginia secede from Virginia and stay separate. That also is consistent with Abe Lincoln's earlier position that:
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.â€
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