Civil Conflict Quotes
The Southern states were illegal rebels. A confederacy had always meant a voluntary association of otherwise independent entities. However technically the Southern states were not independent but in a state of illegal rebellion against the United States. Lincoln, a lawyer, could not being himself to refer to the South by their preferred name—the Confederacy. So this was how he and many in his administration referred to the South.
His data was from the last three decades of the 20th century. The larger a country’s population gets, the more economic growth it takes to improve or even maintain the standard of living. If this and land and other resources are in short supply relative to the population, there is more dissatisfaction and the probability of civil conflict increases. See {621892} for a similar view.
Reformers attempted to serve a New York Supreme Court writ on McKane to prohibit him from continuing corrupt election fraud practices.
The Prime Minister had a penchant for mis-assessing world affairs in both the old world and the new.
The Governor was a staunch Confederate supporter but his state legislature majority favored the Union. He was forced out of the governorship when the 1861 election gave the legislature a veto-proof pro Union majority.
Northern abolitionists were pushing to abolish the Fugitive Slave Act and prohibit slavery in any of the new territories. Southerners were calling for secession and civil war if necessary if the Fugitive Slave Act was not enforced and they could continue to exploit slaves. Webster, to the distress of most of the abolitionists, was working for a compromise. But that had been tried before. It was either slavery or not.
