And in the first place there is great reason to doubt whether the sufferings of the North would be so intolerable, inconsequence of the secession ... viz.: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama ...

Let us assume that South Carolina retires upon the election of ... of duty exacted by the National treasury? The results of secession, independently of any armed coercion on the part of the ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually ... tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

By June, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ... Louisiana’s secession wasn’t a given in 1860. The biggest city in the South was New Orleans, and she was a port city with strong ties to ...