and it is just because the acquisition of a democratic suffrage is sternly interdicted in the Southern States that four millions of human beings are there retained in praedial and domestic Slavery.

They have been hoping that the border States would join the secession movement ... The object to be aimed at is, the conversion of the Southern people from their Secessionism.

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 film outlines the early years of the American Civil War, starting with Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the subsequent secession of Southern states. It details the formation of ...