President Lincoln stated that in his view, secession was unconstitutional. He vowed to protect Federal property and added he would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. Lincoln did all he could to prevent and bring back to the Union secessionist states.
It depends on the sympathies of the person you ask. Northern partisans say the south provoked the war by seceding from the Union. Southern partisans say everybody knew you could get out of the Union if you wanted to up until Lincoln changed the rules with the war, and that Lincoln provoked the war by refusing to evacuate US Army bases in the new southern nation, and by trying to resupply the forces in those forts and bases.
Freeing all slaves in states fighting against the Union
January 1st 1863. He gave the slave-states a bit of notice, in case any of them wanted to re-join the Union before the date of Emancipation, but none of them did.
President Lincoln was opposed to the expansion of slavery in the western territories of the USA. The south felt he wanted to end slavery eventually in the southern states, so they left the union after he was elected. President Lincoln led the fight to bring them back into the union and end slavery in the USA once and for all. He also said that when the southerners come back into the union, it must be forgiveness and treat the southerns as Americans once again.
Freeing all slaves in the states fighting against the union
Most people today believe that Lincoln and his supporters were trying to abolish slavery by fighting a civil war. But if you go back to the real history, documents and letters, you will find out that they were keeping the southern states from seceding from the Union. This is a very debatable topic, seceding from the Union, Many say that is the southern states had left, England would have taken over North America. But if you review the US Constitution you will remember that it is the right of every state to seceding from the Union with out conflict. But because of Lincoln and his supporters, only Texas has that right today; well, as of right now. A great book to read is "A Century of war: Lincoln, Wilson & Roosevelt" by Denson
Withdrawing states say they are seceding from the union.
I don't know if I'm right, but I'd say that they celebrated different states seceding from the Union.
I would say Abraham Lincoln. Even before he took office, states started seceding from the union. Then war broke out and he spent his first term ending the war. The war finally ended and he was assassinated.
I would say Jefferson Davis, because he was the president of the Confederate States of America, and Lincoln was president of the United States of America.
It depends on the sympathies of the person you ask. Northern partisans say the south provoked the war by seceding from the Union. Southern partisans say everybody knew you could get out of the Union if you wanted to up until Lincoln changed the rules with the war, and that Lincoln provoked the war by refusing to evacuate US Army bases in the new southern nation, and by trying to resupply the forces in those forts and bases.
He wanted to keep the Union together.
Lincoln believed it was important to keep these borders states in union, even though that were slave states. That is why in 1861 he continued to say that his aim was to hold the united states together, not to abolish slavery.
it was important to keep the border states in union
Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address was about the Southern states that were trying to secede. He said that the Union was could not be separated and said he did not want to send soldiers to the South.
: Over the years the exact wording has changed. President Lincoln stated that the North was fighting to preserve the Union. In order to do that, this meant all states had to remain within the Union. No state could exercise its right to secede. If it did, Lincoln envisioned a splintering of America into a bunch of petty states and kingdoms, much like what Germany was before Bismarck unified it.
to free the slaves for ever