. A brief history of the United States . t HarpersFerry (1859), and proclaimed freedom to the slaves in thevicinity. His feeble band was soon overpowered by UnitedStates troops, and Brown himself hanged as a it was soon known that in his wild design he hadasked counsel of no one, yet at the time the Southern feelingwas aroused to frenzy, his act being looked upon as significantof the sentiments of the North. Political Parties.—The fall elections again turned onthe question of slavery. The democratic party divided, andmade two nominations for President: Stephen A. Douglas,who fav
. A brief history of the United States . t HarpersFerry (1859), and proclaimed freedom to the slaves in thevicinity. His feeble band was soon overpowered by UnitedStates troops, and Brown himself hanged as a it was soon known that in his wild design he hadasked counsel of no one, yet at the time the Southern feelingwas aroused to frenzy, his act being looked upon as significantof the sentiments of the North. Political Parties.—The fall elections again turned onthe question of slavery. The democratic party divided, andmade two nominations for President: Stephen A. Douglas,who favored squatter sovereignty, and John C. Breckinridge,who claimed that slavery could be carried into any republican party nominated Abraham Lincoln, who heldthat while slavery must be protected where it was, it oughtnot to be carried into free territory. * Lincoln was elected. * The Union party put np John Bell, of Tennessee. Their motto was, TheTTnion, the Constitution, and the Enforcement of the Laws. 198 EPOCH IT. [186a. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The South Secedes.—Througliout the fall campaignthe Southern leaders had threate^ed to secede if Mr. Lincoln were elected.* They nowdeclared that it was time toleave a government whichhad fallen into the hands oftheir avowed enemies. Sincethe time of Calhoun they hadbeen firm believers in the doc-trine of State rights, whichtaught that a State couldleave the Union wheneverit pleased. In December(1860) South CaroHna ledoff, and soon after Missis-sippi, Florida, Alabama,Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas passed ordinances of se- * This was not a sudden movement ontheirpart. The sectional difference betweenthe North and the South had its source in the difference of climate, which ereatlymodified the character and habits of the people ; also, while the agricultural pursuitsand staple products of the South made slave labor profitable, the mechanical pursuitsand the more varied prolucts of the North made it unprofitable. These antagonis
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