24 points, please answer ASAP!! Excerpt 1
I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national
governments.

Excerpt 2
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.

How does this explain what Lincoln thought about the South's choice to leave the Union?