Did Lincoln Steal A Famous Phrase from Madison?

Did Lincoln steal his famous "preserve the union" phrase from Madison or some other Founding Father? I've now seen Madison use the phrase more than once. The latest example I found follows:

It appeared to be the sincere and unanimous wish of the Convention to cherish and preserve the Union of the States. No proposition was made, no suggestion was thrown out, in favor of a partition of the Empire into two or more Confederacies

If Lincoln did steal it from Madison, he ignored what Madison immediately said next:

It was generally agreed that the objects of the Union could not be secured by any system founded on the principle of a confederation of sovereign States. A voluntary observance of the federal law by all the members, could never be hoped for. A compulsive one could evidently never be reduced to practice, and if it could, involved equal calamities to the innocent & the guilty, the necessity of a military force both obnoxious & dangerous, and in general, a scene resembling much more a civil war, than the administration of a regular Government.

Even if Lincoln had read Madison's prescient observation, his statist ambition would have ignored it. For more details, check out The Real Lincoln.

The Real Lincoln

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

This book has altered my view of the American Civil War. For the first time in my life, I have sympathy for the Southern cause. No, not for slavery. That abomination had to end. The South's cause was states' rights. But their horrible contradiction was trying to apply states rights to deny others their rights. As such, it was properly doomed.

That said, that did not make the North's cause automatically just. Had the North declared, at the outset, that its mission was to free the slaves, then its cause would have been just. It would have had the moral right to crush the South by any means necessary.

But it didn't. In yet another horrible contradiction, it felt it had the right to deny others their rights. The Civil War was a cataclysmic orgy of abusing the rights of others.

The North's goal was to stop the South from seceding. The purpose behind that was not to "save the Union" but to crush opposition to Lincoln's goal -- to implement on a national level statist ambitions he had failed to accomplish on a state level for 3 decades. Standing in his way was the constitution -- on state level as well as national. More, the staunchest advocates of states' rights, tragically, were Southerners.

This and more is covered in DiLorenzo's book. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in a fresh perspective on the Civil War and its significant, tragic impact of American life and politics ever since.

I encourage and welcome comments on the book.