Abraham Lincoln's Objectification Of The Schism In The United States

Many northern congressmen had ignored decades of empty southern threats that they disparaged the talk of the schism that arose in the days surrounding Lincoln’s election. The election Abraham Lincoln nevertheless, as seen by the southerners as a deterrent act of war. They found lots of reason to abhor the man ridiculed as a baboon, a dreadful looking wretch, this was because Lincoln was a “Black Republican” who in their perspective encouraged equality for slaves. His proclamation that “a house divided cannot stand” was proof that he wanted war. Lincoln’s starting goal was to put slavery on the road of extinction this showed that he wanted to cut away the every bit of southern life. He said he would free about 4 million slaves, which ruin the southern economy and replace white workers
Southerners had convinced themselves that the slaves were better off financially, spiritually, and socially if they were in Africa; undeniably, they believed, slaves were treated better than poor northern industry workers, local president promoting only northern interests had no rights to change a system that for years had proven to be peaceful and prosperous. They felt resentment toward Lincoln and the republicans referred to as an; “intense mutual hatred” this existed between the north and south. On December 20, 1860, six weeks after Lincoln’s election, South Carolina’s legislature met and conscripted articles of secession. Six other states in the Deep South soon followed, and the union fell apart. Those who looked for Lincoln to address the issue were deeply disappointed, regardless of pleas from political friends and enemies alike, and despite of relentless questioning by national news reporters, Lincoln choose to remain silent. He had no to handle the secession, he also believed that he could not act until he was inaugurated and until the electrical college ballots were counted and he officially became the elected as the