Re: Slavery in the North
"Lincoln gave them no other options"
George,
What options could he have given them under law other than the assurances he gave them in his first inagural speech. I think there were those in the south (read that for the most part South Carolina) who had already decided that they were leaving no matter what and then a Republican gets elected, because there were to many candidates on the ballot, no fault of the north by the way. How do you think any of this had anything to do with Lincoln giving no options.
FC