A history of the United States for Catholic schools . i JAMES Buchanans administration 389 of slavery and was inclined to take a final stand against it. Even during the campaign, the South threatened freely tosecede from the Union in case of Lincolns election. TheRepublicans said that this threat had been made for twentyyears, and was but the cry of wolf, but this time the wolfreally came, for the South was in deadly earnest. When theelection of Lincoln was made known, South Carolina (December,1860) passed an ordinance of secession and publicly announcedthe fact to the world. The state based i
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . i JAMES Buchanans administration 389 of slavery and was inclined to take a final stand against it. Even during the campaign, the South threatened freely tosecede from the Union in case of Lincolns election. TheRepublicans said that this threat had been made for twentyyears, and was but the cry of wolf, but this time the wolfreally came, for the South was in deadly earnest. When theelection of Lincoln was made known, South Carolina (December,1860) passed an ordinance of secession and publicly announcedthe fact to the world. The state based its right of secession on the old principleof states rights, as expressed b^^ the Kentucky and VirginiaResolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the NullificationOrdinance of South Carolina. Secession and war were not,however, brought about so much by the states rights questionas by anti-slavery agitations, which led to the Kansas-Nebraskatroubles, to the Dred Scott Decision, to John Browns raid,and to the election of Lincoln as President. 498. The F
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