Chapter 10.4 Lincoln and Secession Katie Antrim Mary Kate Tracy Mark Pilon

U.S. Senate Election Douglas vs. Lincoln ▫U.S. Senate (1858) ▫Who was Lincoln?  Republican  Slavery was immoral ▫Douglas wins election

Election of 1860 William Seward and Abraham Lincoln running for Republican candidates ▫Seward  Well-known  North and South: “Irrepressible conflict.” ▫Lincoln  Promised to halt spread of slavery  Would not interfere with Southerners or their slaves

Election of 1860 Candidates ▫Abraham Lincoln: Republican ▫J.C. Breckinridge: Southern Democrat ▫John Bell: Constitutional Union ▫Stephen Douglas: Northern Democrat

Lincoln’s Presidency Lincoln emerged as winner ▫Less than half the popular votes ▫No electoral votes from South ▫Sectional support

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.” -Abraham Lincoln Letter to Albert G. Hodges

Southern Secession South was convinced they had lost all power in the national government Violating State’s Rights ▫Tariffs ▫Slavery ▫Bank of U.S.

Southern Secession South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, Mississippi seceded on January 9,1861. Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed

“This country will be drenched in blood…The people of the North are not going to let the country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it…In only spirit and determination are you determined for war…In all else you are totally unprepared.” -William Tecumseh Sherman

Southern Secession Lincoln believed that secession was unconstitutional “Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak—but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?” -Abraham Lincoln First inaugural Address

Works Cited Primary Sources ▫U.S. History Textbook pg. 330 ▫ slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing- is.htmlhttp://