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Because Lincoln's election as President meant there would be no new slave-states. So the South would always be outvoted in Congress, which would tend to pass laws that favoured the North over the South.
Because Lincoln had won the election of 1860 on a ticket of no new slave-states. So the South was doomed to be outvoted in Congress.

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