Of particular note was the fact that it was a reaction to the election — and not the actual government — of Abraham Lincoln. Specifically, it found that the election of Lincoln was a kind of geographic coup in which a "sectional party" dominant in "all the states north of a [geographical] line [had] united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes [were] hostile to slavery." (PROSE: Blood and Hope)
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