It was taken up and several amendments proposed. The declaration of causes which justify the secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union was made a special order. The whole address received ...

of which South Carolina and the other Cotton States form the cement and mortar that keep them from tumbling into a shapeless ruin. But nothing need be more evident than that secession, even if ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually ... tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1861 – the birthplace of secession, and tempers were on edge. In December 1860, the state of South Carolina declared itself independent and severed ties ...