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Is It a Cold War?
Lincoln was elected in november 18 60, and immediately the state of south carolina started making preparations to secede from the union. They sent out emissaries to other slaveholding southern states tho encourage them to do likewise. By the time l Lincoln was inaugurated in march 18 61, seven slaveholding states had left the union. That's illegal. And they said this very explicitly in their in their manifestoes, as it were, the documents theth issued to explain a secession. So by the time lincoln became president, he had this, it was a kind of cold war, a stand off,. A there were these seven states that by the had formed an