Caroline Janney

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Short History Of... · The American Civil War (Part One of Two) · 5 Apr 2026 podcast

So we start to see this in the fall of 1859 and certainly in 1860 when we have an impending presidential election coming up.

It's only the second time that the Republicans will have run a presidential candidate.

And the Republican platform says no extension of slavery into the territories.

Slavery cannot extend any farther than it already exists.

But we will protect slavery where it does exist already.

Immediately following Lincoln's election, the state of South Carolina will vote to secede.

They vote unanimously in December of 1860.

And, you know, it's worth keeping in mind that this is the real breakdown of democracy.

That one state decides it doesn't like the outcome of a presidential election,

And the response is to leave the Union.

And very quickly, six other states follow suit.

You have seven Deep South states by February of 1861 who have agreed that the Republican Party is such a threat to the institution of slavery that they need to leave the country rather than stay in it.

In 1860, there were 16 slaveholding states.

And as of February of 1861, only seven of those states had left the Union.

And so one thing they're envisioning is that they need to get the rest of the slaveholding states to join the fold.

If they don't have Virginia, which is the largest and most populous and has the most industry of all the slaveholding states,

this could be a problem for building a future nation if they don't have Tennessee and North Carolina, similar sorts of issues.

But they are also already thinking about how they situate themselves within the world.

And so they're thinking about diplomatic relations with England, with Spain, with France.

How do we appear legitimate?

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