PLEASE HELP Read the passage from President Lincoln's Fast
Inaugural Address.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and
not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ... You
have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the
Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to
"preserve, protect, and defend it."
Which best sums up the meaning of Lincoln's words?
O Americans are right to be dissatisfied with their
government.
O Unhappy Americans have no right to break the Union
apart.
O Southern states are free to leave the Union if they so
choose.
O The president has the power to start a civil war if he
wants to.