"Of particular note was the fact that it was a reaction to the election \u2014 and not the actual government \u2014 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)"@en . . . . . "Of particular note was the fact that it was a reaction to the election \u2014 and not the actual government \u2014 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)"@en . . "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union"@en .