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 ...

CHARLESTON, Tuesday, May 1, 1860. One of the most annoying things ... She was followed by Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. Their protests had ...

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.

In December 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union in furor ... see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures. Instead, California is becoming ...

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 ...