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Chapter 6:
Mr. Lincoln's election to the Presidency
its danger to the Union
warnings of the President and his trying position
his policy in the emergency, and the reasons for it
his supreme object the preservation of the Union-meeti rom the secession leaders
Cessation of all friendly intercourse between him and them.
On the 6th November, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, and immediately thereafter the Legislature of South Carolina passed an A tton States to follow in her lead.
Every discerning citizen must now have foreseen serious danger to the Union from Mr. Lincoln's election.
After a struggle of many years, this had accomplished the triumph of the antislavery over the slaveholdin Federal Government, at a time when their rights were in no real danger, either from the election or administration of Mr. Lincoln.
He says:
And this brings me to observe, that the election of any one of our fellow-citizens to the office of P
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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Appendix (search)