With the
election of the anti-slavery Republican candidate for
President, Abraham Lincoln, the Southern states decided they
had to take drastic action in order to protect their own
interests. On December 20, 1860, a secession convention met
in South Carolina and adopted an Ordinance of Secession from
the Union. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
and Texas quickly followed suit. These states sent delegates
to Montgomery, Alabama and on February 8, 1861 adopted a
provisional constitution for the newly formed Confederate
States of America. Jefferson
Davis was chosen as the President for a
six-year term of office. The Constitution
by which the permanent government of the Confederate States
of America was formed was reported by the committee and
adopted by the Provisional Congress on the 11th of March,
1861, to be submitted to the States for ratification. All
States ratified it and conformed themselves to its
requirements without delay. The Constitution varied in very
few particulars from the Constitution of the United States,
preserving carefully the fundamental principles of popular
representative democracy and confederation of co-equal
States.
These events were
to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in
American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the
Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least
600,000 Americans would lose their lives fighting for
constitutional principle, sectional differences, economic
self-interest, and moral righteousness. As a defining moment
in United States history, our Civil War has no equal, which
is why it remains such a fascinating subject even today.
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