:: : : : : As for legality, since the southerners chose to start the shooting war, many in the north were persuaded that consitutional provisions such as " The Congress shall have power . . . To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions " and " The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it " and " No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War " applied.
