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They were afraid to lose their rights and treated as a tolerated minority by Lincoln administration. In their opinion, Lincoln would have fully applied the Republican Party's government's program, for them unacceptable.
President Abraham Lincoln was worried about Maryland because it was a border state and he thought the state might succeed from the union. Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware were also at risk because they were border states.
Maryland, as it enclosed Washington DC. Sure enough, it was a group of Maryland secessionists who eventually plotted his assassination.
Kennedy was the first (and only, as of 2017) Roman Catholic US President. At the time, some Americans were worried that he would take instructions from the Pope.
The 1864 election worried US President Lincoln. In fact, due to the length and loss of life in the war, there were even rumors that the Republican Party might nominate another candidate. Many historians would cite the Union victory in Atlanta Georgia, in the Summer of 1864, as a turning point in favor of Lincoln's re-nomination and subsequent reelection in November.
Lincoln was worried about winning the re-election in 1864. His fears were due to the protests people made concerning the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement.
Based on his speeches they feared he would push to outlaw slavery in the territories and in any new states. They feared that it was just a matter of time before slavery was outlawed in the whole country.
The constitutional delegates saw potential problems with electing a president by pure democracy. The delegates had two specific concerns. First, they worried that presidential candidates from less populated states would never have a chance at being elected. Second, they did not trust the uneducated majority to make wise political choices. The Electoral College system was established to solve these potential problems.
The Southern states wanted to keep their slaves, and they were worried that President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, so many of the southern states left the union to try and keep their slaves.
You could make a case for either the Election of Abraham Lincoln as President OR the Emancipation of the slaves; but the South saw them as one in the same. Lincoln actually didn't want to free the slaves; he believed that slavery would eventually end naturally and he believed that it should be ended by containing slavery and then just letting it fall apart on itself. The South believed that Lincoln would free the slaves so as soon as he was elected Southern States began to seceed. The funny thing is that it's because of their secession that Lincoln freed the slaves. He was put into a position where he probably just thought "Well, the wars already started...might as well free them now."
he worried it would start a war.
Many Northerners were angered by the Emancipation Proclamation and the length of the war