. Southern Democrats vehemently objected to Abraham Lincoln’s election because the Republican had made clear his party’s opposition to the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories. The Southern Democrats were not simply objecting this his policies, however — they considered his election illegitimate, dismissing him as a sectional president whoNot long ago, calling for the overturning of a presidential election was seen as a risky activity.
Some of those arguments are echoed in the words of Republicans today. Yet the Southern Democrats of 1860 took a different approach,. Instead of staying in Congress to protest Lincoln’s election, they largely resigned. Most would go on to serve in the Confederate Congress a few months later after secession.
We shouldn’t lionize these people, obviously — these members of Congress were agitating on behalf of human enslavement, and their actions fomented the Civil War. They were, as Lincoln observed, advocating anarchy. But in some ways, their approach was more honest. They didn’t manufacture flimsy evidence or bizarre theories to try to claim that Lincoln was improperly elected. Rather, they said that a nation that could elect Lincoln was not one they wanted to be a part of.
THINK So they shouldn't be in the Congress? Is that what you CLOWNS are saying?
THINK The opportunistic lying is appalling.
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