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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44 Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber November , 1860 April , 1861
Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861.
The secession movement had been definitely planned before the election of Mr. Lincoln, and its leaders were as well satisfied with this result as were his own supporters.
They had even connived at it by a division of the Southern vote, so as to make a pretence for revolution.
Immediately after the election was made known, they proceeded actively to consummate their purpose in open and secret measures.
On December 15 appeared the address of Jefferson Davis, Benjamin, Slidell, Wigfall, and other leaders of secession in Congress, invoking the Southern people to organize a Southern confederacy; avowing that the primary object of each slaveholding State ought to be its speedy and absolute separation from a union with the hostile States.
South Carolina took the lead, and seceded five days later, followed the next month by Mississippi, Flori