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ton States the right of secession discussed and denied in the message the President's position defined question of the power to coerce a State distinction between the power to wage war against a State, and the power to execute the laws against individuals views of Senator (now President) Johnson, of Tennessee President Buchanan's solemn appeal in favor of the Union his estrangement from the secession leaders Cessation of all friendly intercourse between him and them. On the 6th November, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, and immediately thereafter the Legislature of South Carolina passed an Act for the call of a Convention to carry the State out of the Union, calculating that by this precipitate violence she might force the other cotton States to follow in her lead. Every discerning citizen must now have foreseen serious danger to the Union from Mr. Lincoln's election. After a struggle of many years, this had accomplished the triumph of t