Read the sentences from Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address. What is Lincoln’s main point in this excerpt? It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
A.
Only the states could make laws for secession.
B.
Secession was illegal and any laws that permitted it were not valid.
C.
Secession was allowed by law and could not be stopped by the Union.
D.
Only the Union could make laws for secession.