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Analysis Of Abraham Lincoln's Aims At The North

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On Monday, March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln gave his first Inaugural Address in Washington D.C. that explained how the South were not justified in leaving the Union. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican who did not have the same views on slavery as with the South. Lincoln was against slavery and wanted the United States to come together and to not be separated from beliefs. However, the Election of 1860 proved the opposite. The South did not cast a single vote for Lincoln in the election yet Lincoln was still elected as president. The outcome of the election only further divided the nation by the secession of many Southern states from the nation. Many southerners believed they had no say in the election and decided to form their own government. The Confederate States of America were formed …show more content…

For example, Lincoln stated “one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ‘to form a more perfect Union.’ But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is ‘less’ perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.” Lincoln explained if the Southern States would be given the right to secede from the Union, then it would make the Union imperfect which would go against the Constitution. The main idea of Lincoln’s address is to empower the states to remain in the Union, or to “form a more perfect Union.” On the other hand, the South believed they had the right to secede from the Union as explained through Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address “The Aims at the South” in February 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama. For instance, Davis stated “the right of the people to alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established…”. Davis explained how people should have the right to overthrow the government and secede from a

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