CSPAN2 Book TV October 29, 2012
Discuss Abraham Lincoln stroll, 18601861. More specifically, i want to talk about why Abraham Lincoln rejected any meaningful compromise. Following his election as president november 1860, the country the script but a crisis. Because many southerners feared lincoln and his Republican Party. Republican party was a northern party, and proudly so. But it did not have a significant southern connection. Lincoln was elected without a single electoral votes from any of the 15 slave states, and only four border states, missouri, kentucky, maryland and delaware did he get any popular vote. And they are...