What Is the Secession Winter?

Lincoln's election does not immediately produce war. Until the twentieth century, presidents did not take office until march. So there was a lot of time between when l Lincoln was elected and when he was going to go ahead and take the presidential seat. Now this doesn't mean that southerners were happy with lincoln's election. They were very irritated. Of course, the president who was dedicated to the idea that everything they believed in was wrong, was something that slaveholders feared. But at the same time, his election does not immediate produce war.