"This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that there is some omnipotent and sacred supremacy pertaining to a state -- to each state of our Federal Union. Our states have neither more nor less power than that reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution, no one of them ever having been a state out of the Union. The original ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence, and the new ones each came into the Union directly from a condition of dependence, excepting Texas; and even Texas, in its temporary independence, was never designated a state. The new ones only took the designation of states on coming into the Union, while that name was first adopted for the old ones in and by the Declaration of Independence.-Abraham Lincoln, 1861This quote from Lincoln's speech to Congress following the Battle of Ft. Sumter indicates that a primary objective of the Union war effort was toa) abolish slavery in the southern statesb) preserve the Union of states under control of the federal governmentc) forge an alliance with anti-slavery forces in France and Great Britaind) secure the interests of northern industrialists and bankers by taxing southern planters

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