South Carolina: December 20, 1860
Mississippi: January 9, 1861
Florida: January 10, 1861
Alabama: January 11, 1861
Georgia: January 19, 1861
Louisiana: January 26, 1861
Texas: February 1, 1861
Virginia: April 17, 1861
Arkansas: May 6, 1861
North Carolina: May 20, 1861
Tennessee: June 8, 1861

And every one of those states listed their reasons for secession in the “articles of secession” that each state legislature published.

And the first grievance that each state listed in their “articles”- was their fear that the United States would abolish their sacred right to enslave other human beings.

Now, it seems, as it seemed in the election of 1860, that the house and senate were controlled by the enslavers, the Supreme Court had been captured by the South- having made their Dread Scott decision some decades prior, buttressed now by legislation compelling northern states to return fugitive slaves to their “owners”.

The election of 1860 was a tight thing, but Lincoln won. One wonders what would have happened had Douglas won.

Federal troops sent to northern cities like Minneapolis to round up escaped slaves??

Marco’s appeal to Lincoln fails miserably and reveals either abysmal ignorance or a cunning misapplication of history