Yesterday in class (12/11/12) we read primary source
document about South Carolina’s secession from the Union. We answered questions
about the primary source documents and had a discussion on the reasons why they
thought they could secede. Their main argument
was that they had made an agreement with the other states, and they didn’t keep
up with the agreement. When the other states broke the agreement South Carolina
had the right to be a free independent state.
Today in class (12/12/12) we took notes by comparing the
Constitution and the New Orleans Newspaper. The Constitution stated that the
president was required to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.” He must also enforce, or carry out all federal
laws. The New Orleans Newspaper said Republicans saw slavery as a system of
weakness. The newspaper stated the Republicans
would continue to work to demolish slavery, and the succession of the Confederacy was
an act of self-defense. The southerners were now considered to have lost “their
way of life.” The Newspaper truly discriminated Abraham Lincoln who refused to
see the seceded states as actual countries.
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