Nine Southern senators didn't sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto. These included Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee, and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
He was one of two southern senators who refused to sign the document.
refused to tolerate opposing ideas about religious practices
Because they refused to give up slavery
Civil War
what state refused the twenty fourth amendment
Mississippi
All of the Southern states, but Tennessee.
post offices refused to deliver abolitionist publications
Because their economy relied on the slaves to pick cotton
Lincoln's election would spell an end to slavery, so the southern states refused to add him.
When the people of the United States heard about the Ostend Manifesto they were angered. This hurt President Pierce's chances at presidency. This also helped splinter the Democratic Party.
The election of Lincoln, who had refused to allow any extension of slavery.