ABSTRACT
There have been only two wars in American history that were, in author's view, assuredly and unquestionably proper and just; not only that, the opposing side waged a war that was clearly and notably unjust. To be specific, the two just wars in American history were the American Revolution, and the War for Southern Independence. The cause of "human rights" is precisely the critical argument by which, in retrospect, Abraham Lincoln's War of Northern Aggression against the South is justified and even glorified. It is plainly evident that the American Revolution was a just war, a war of peoples forming an independent nation and casting off the bonds of another people insisting on perpetuating their rule over them. Even after the war began, the Mayor of New York City and many other dignitaries of the city proposed that the city secede from the Union and make peace and engage in free trade with the South.
