After
The November Election
Secessionists Planned
To Leave
The Union Before He Took Office
In March.:350 On December 20
1860
South Carolina Took
The Lead
By Adopting
An Ordinance Of Secession;
By February 1
1861
Florida
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
And Texas Had Followed.:267:498 Six Of These States Declared Themselves
To Be
A Sovereign Nation
The Confederate States Of America
And Adopted
A Constitution.:267
The Upper South
And Border States (Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Missouri
And Arkansas) Listened To
But Initially Rejected
The Secessionist Appeal.:362 President Buchanan
And President-elect Lincoln Refused
To Recognize
The Confederacy
Declaring Secession Illegal.:520
569�570
The Confederacy Selected Jefferson Davis
As Its Provisional President On February 9
1861.:369
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Congress neither debated nor enacted
the resolution
the national papers ignored it
and
it cost Lincoln political support
in his district
One Illinois newspaper derisively nicknamed him "spotty Lincoln".:33:202 Lincoln later regretted some of his statements
especially his attack on presidential war-making powers.:128; ; . . Water supply
and water quality
Historian Gregg L
Frazer argues that
the leading Founders (John Adams
Jefferson
Franklin
Wilson
Morris
Madison
Hamilton
and Washington) were neither Christians nor Deists
but rather supporters of
a hybrid "theistic rationalism". .
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