Six more states seceded

By tinelson66

  • south carlina

    south carlina
    ncreasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution... Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free."

  • Flordia

    Flordia
    Florida did not write a declaration.

  • Alabama

    Alabama
    Alabama Commissioner Stephen Fowler Hale failed in his effort to convince Kentucky to secede, but wrote to the governor a diatribe against Northern attacks on slavery and lamented that Lincoln's election was "nothing less than an open declaration of war, for the triumph of this new theory of government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a Santo Domingo servile resurrection...." "Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Ha

  • mississippi suceded

    mississippi suceded
    Before Georgia seceded, Mississippi sent its commissioner, William L. Harris, to the Georgia Legislature. He decried the threat of Lincoln and the Republicans and told the members that they had to choose between "This new union with Lincoln Black Republicans and free Negroes, without slavery; or, slavery under our old constitutional bond of union, without Lincoln Black Republicans, or free Negroes either, to molest us."

  • Georgia

    Georgia
    The prohibition of slavery in the Territories is the cardinal principle of [the Republicans]," and that "by their declared principles and policy they have outlawed $3,000,000,000 of our property in the common territories of the Union."

  • Louisiana

    Louisiana
    George Williamson George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention on March 9, 1861: "Being desirous of obtaining the concurrence of the people of Texas in what she has done, Louisiana invites you to a candid consideration of her acts in resuming the powers delegated to the government of the late United States, and in providing for the formation of a confederacy of "The States which have seceded and may secede." ... She was impelled to this action to preserve her honor, her saf