. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . avery from a local to a iKitiottal institution ; andthey resisted it accordingly. t The extreme pro-slavery party nominated John C. Breckenridge, who had beenVice-President under Buchanan; the Squatter Sovereignty party, Stephen These two divided the Democratic party. The American party nominatedJohn Bell, of Tennessee, with the simple party platform, The Union, the Constitu-tion, and tlie Enforcement of the Laws. i Abraham Lincoln was bor
. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . avery from a local to a iKitiottal institution ; andthey resisted it accordingly. t The extreme pro-slavery party nominated John C. Breckenridge, who had beenVice-President under Buchanan; the Squatter Sovereignty party, Stephen These two divided the Democratic party. The American party nominatedJohn Bell, of Tennessee, with the simple party platform, The Union, the Constitu-tion, and tlie Enforcement of the Laws. i Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809. He served as captain in theBlack Hawk War, afterwards as a member of the Illinois legislature ; and in 1846 hewas chosen representative in Congress. His plainness and simplicity of address,homely wit, and incorruptible integrity, had made him very popular, and caused himto be very generally called Honest Old Abe. 24. How many candidates were nominated to succeed Buchanan ? Who waselected ? What threat had been used by the Southern leaders ? 25. What took placein South Carolina ? 238 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES [1861. SEAL OF OREGON of ijreater security, in Charleston, which formally declared that the Unionnow subsisting between South Carolina and other States,under the name of the UnitedStates of America, is hereby dis-solved. 26. Occupation of Fort Sum-ter—Six days afterward, MajorAnderson, commanding at FortMoultrie, withdrew the garrisonof eighty men from that fort, andremoved to Fort Sumter, a placeThis was considered a hostile act bythe South Carolinians, and they at once seized thecustom-house at Charleston, and other property of thegeneral government, and commencedoperations in order to compel Ander-son to surrender the fort. 27. Organization of the Confed-erate States—Six other SouthernStates, following the lead of SouthCarolina, at the commencement of1861 passed secession ordinances : Mis-sissippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,Louisiana, and Te
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