The South's immediate secession after Lincoln's inauguration was mainly due to built up hatred of the North. Because the North was supportive of Lincoln and because he was of the Republican Party, the South basically had a conceptual image of him as one who would be against the South. Too many battles and too many protests and too many words had been fought and so there no longer stood out an individual from the North who might happen to be a Southern sympathizer nor visa versa, to them the North exemplified the Anti-slavery

abolitionists who fought to set their property free and who wanted to muffle and diminish the South, their rights, and their lifestyle. Lincoln was just another representative of that.

"...everything comes from the North. We rise from between sheets made in Northern looms, and pillow's of Northern feathers, to wash in basins made in the North...We eat from Northern plates and dishes; our rooms are swept with Northern brooms, our gardens dug with Northern spades...and the very wood which feeds our fires is cut with Northern axes, helved with hickory brought from Connecticut and New York." (Garraty 381)

Although Lincoln explicitly stated that he would not rid slavery from the southern slave states it did not necessarily mean that that would happen. He hoped that would because that would keep the South but he did not believe that that's what would necess

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