The presidents had a lot to deal with. Conflict between the north and south was high, and there were other worries, like the panic of 1857 to worry about. President Davis, in his message to the Confederate Congress stated that the Constitution was unable to prevent the growth of a poli

tical school that was wrong in his opinion. This was a problem in the interpretation of the Constitution- the northerners were supportive of a federal government and the southerners favored state's rights. President Buchanan pointed out that the southern states were backed up by the Constitution were allowed to decide if they wanted to withdraw, or to keep slaves, because matters not in the Constitution were left up to them. The Constitution is the conflict here because it is again about the interpretation of the Constitution whether the states are allowed to decide if they could secede, because there was nothing saying that they could, but also nothing stating that they could not. President Lincoln's problem was like Buchanan's. The problem was that the south felt they could destroy the union, because it is within their so-called "state rights". But Lincoln argues that no state has a right to destroy the Constitution or the union. Since this secess

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