Essay On Southern Secession
Unsuccessful Southern Secession
When being elected into presidency, Abraham Lincoln had no idea where the ongoing tension between sections would go, he just knew it would inevitably end in war. However, it was infact this election that became the straw to break the camel’s back. A boiling strife between Southern and Northern states was building because of controversy over slavery. While other components were involved in causing the war, the root to the problem sprouted from the seed of slavery. This secession had been foreshadowed in the way that the issue of slavery had only been compromised by the founding fathers, never resolved. The fact that more power in government was attained by whether a state was a slave state or not, more problems began to rise. There was conflict not only in the sections but in legislation as well about the differences in opinions. Not to mention the abolitionist movement and moral standings became more popular topics as well. It was slavery …show more content…
Prior to the Southern secession, the North territories and states held the power in congress, meaning that they passed laws that benefitted only the North. Of course, this fact did not settle with the South well. In a speech by a Mississippi politician, Albert Gallatin Brown, he alludes to the dislike towards the North’s grip in congress: “The North is accumulating power, and it means to use that power to emancipate your slaves...Disunion is a fearful thing, but emancipation is worse.” The fear over the North having more power in the government is that they will use that power to abolish slavery, a topic on the Northern abolitionist agenda. As Brown puts it, they would rather break away from their country they had only years earlier fought to attain, than to let there be a law banning them from having
When being elected into presidency, Abraham Lincoln had no idea where the ongoing tension between sections would go, he just knew it would inevitably end in war. However, it was infact this election that became the straw to break the camel’s back. A boiling strife between Southern and Northern states was building because of controversy over slavery. While other components were involved in causing the war, the root to the problem sprouted from the seed of slavery. This secession had been foreshadowed in the way that the issue of slavery had only been compromised by the founding fathers, never resolved. The fact that more power in government was attained by whether a state was a slave state or not, more problems began to rise. There was conflict not only in the sections but in legislation as well about the differences in opinions. Not to mention the abolitionist movement and moral standings became more popular topics as well. It was slavery …show more content…
Prior to the Southern secession, the North territories and states held the power in congress, meaning that they passed laws that benefitted only the North. Of course, this fact did not settle with the South well. In a speech by a Mississippi politician, Albert Gallatin Brown, he alludes to the dislike towards the North’s grip in congress: “The North is accumulating power, and it means to use that power to emancipate your slaves...Disunion is a fearful thing, but emancipation is worse.” The fear over the North having more power in the government is that they will use that power to abolish slavery, a topic on the Northern abolitionist agenda. As Brown puts it, they would rather break away from their country they had only years earlier fought to attain, than to let there be a law banning them from having