The truth is, secession has been carried in most of the Southern States merely because they were taken by surprise. The subject was sprung upon the people, whose fears were aroused by the triumph ...

At the North we have emerged, seemingly, from a state of chaos to firm ... be demonstrated by experience to the Southern mind, before the passion for secession can be stayed.

But he would not actually become President until his inauguration on March 4th, 1861 in Washington ... a new government called the Confederate States of America.

The state of Mississippi seceded on Jan. 9, 1861. Florida seceded the next ... only a few months before Louisiana’s secession, the Southern Democrat (John C. Breckinridge) received 22681 votes ...