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However, there were many in the South who agreed:

Perhaps an understanding of the momentous events of the time may be gained by what the Honorable Captain Edward Dillihunty Baxter noted in his remarks at the Franklin [Tennessee] reunion of Confederate veterans in the fall of 1892, where he made the following observations:

A political party arose in the United State which maintained that slavery was wrong and should be abolished. And though the Supreme Court of the United States had decided in favor of the right of property in slaves, the political party referred to boldly proclaimed that it would not abide by the decision of the highest court in the land; and that, if necessary, the Constitution would be amended so as to abolish slavery under the forms of the law. That party finally became strong enough to elect Mr. Lincoln President of the United States, and the people of the South feared that in a few years the same party would become strong enough to change the Constitution so as to utterly destroy the right of property in slaves. The people of the South believed that they would be deprived of their right of property without due process of law, and without compensation; and, entertaining that belief, there was nothing left for them to do but to resort to arms to defend their right of property, or to cowardly abandon it without a struggle.(3)

The long smoldering sectional conflict between the northern and southern sections of the union had reached its ignition point with the looming national presidential elections of November 1860. Prior to the election, several southern states had provided for secession conventions of their people in the event of a Republican victory believing it would be impossible to coexist with their neighbors to the north who were bitterly opposed to the then existing southern institutions.(4)

In point of fact, The Kentucky Statesman of Lexington, Kentucky on January 6, 1860 warned: “Means must be taken to overthrow and destroy the republican party, to defeat its aspirations to power and crush it out as a political organization in the country. Its success will overthrow the government and that issue must be tried in 1860.”(5)

This conclusion was not new, and had been repeatedly sounded by southern politicians since the presidential campaign of 1856. (6)

3. Rev. Albert Theodore Goodloe, First Lieutenant, Company D, 35th Regiment,
Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C. S. A., Confederate Echoes A Voice from the South in
the Days of Secession and of the Southern Confederacy, Publishing House of the
M. E. Church, South, Smith & Lamar, Nashville, Tenn., 1907. Capt. Baxter
commanded an artillery battery during the war known as Baxter's Artillery.
Post war he became an "eminent lawyer whose reputation was coexistent with the
United States" [Confederate Veteran, Vol. XXVII, p. 351] and "for more than forty
years he was a recognized leader of the Tennessee bar." [Confederate Veteran,
Vol. XVIII, p. 389]

4. Nathaniel W. Stephenson, The Day of the Confederacy, Yale University Press,
1919, p. 2

5. Dwight Lowell Dumon, Ph.D, Editor, Southern Editorials on Secession, The Century
Co., 1931, p. 5

6. Kenneth M. Stampp, And the War Came, The North and the Secession Crisis,
1860-61, Phoenix Books, The University of Chicago Press, 1950, p. 5

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