Reasonably, if a state voluntarily enters the union it should just as voluntarily be able to secede from it. If memory serves, when the Chief Justice rendered such an opinion Lincoln swore out a warrant for his arrest. He arrested 20,000 newspaper reporters and editors for the duration of the war because they wrote articles criticizing him or the war effort. He arrested basically the entire Maryland legislature for the duration of the war because he feared they’d vote to secede. The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to southern states that he didn’t control in an attempt to foment a slave rebellion in the south; slavery continued in northern and border states till after the war. He also wanted to return all the slaves to Africa. His initial war aim was to preserve the Union by force; when he later changed it to freeing the slaves a lot of Union soldiers deserted. Etc. Sounds like “a long train of abuses and usurpations.”
So essentially Lincoln set the standard for how the Republican Party commits acts of war. Mind you most wars were started by Democrats. You do it by going above congress and taking clear decisive action. For example George W. Bush's war on terror or Trump's most recent actions that have us teetering on the edge WW3.
Reasonably, if a state voluntarily enters the union it should just as voluntarily be able to secede from it. If memory serves, when the Chief Justice rendered such an opinion Lincoln swore out a warrant for his arrest. He arrested 20,000 newspaper reporters and editors for the duration of the war because they wrote articles criticizing him or the war effort. He arrested basically the entire Maryland legislature for the duration of the war because he feared they’d vote to secede. The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to southern states that he didn’t control in an attempt to foment a slave rebellion in the south; slavery continued in northern and border states till after the war. He also wanted to return all the slaves to Africa. His initial war aim was to preserve the Union by force; when he later changed it to freeing the slaves a lot of Union soldiers deserted. Etc. Sounds like “a long train of abuses and usurpations.”
So essentially Lincoln set the standard for how the Republican Party commits acts of war. Mind you most wars were started by Democrats. You do it by going above congress and taking clear decisive action. For example George W. Bush's war on terror or Trump's most recent actions that have us teetering on the edge WW3.