Bullets for Ballots: 1860 (3 of 3)

The American Story

Christopher Flannery

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Until the election of 1860, the truths proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence had been the ground of American civic friendship, above all the central truth that all men are created equal. Fidelity to this most American idea held the country together through many divisions since 1776. The Confederate States rejected that idea. America had lost the foundation for civic peace. Ballots gave way to bullets.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the American Story.
0:04.0	Stories about what it is that makes America beautiful.
0:08.0	Heartbreaking, funny, inspiring, and endlessly interesting.
0:12.0	This is Chris Flannery with the Cramoni. inspiring and endlessly interesting.
0:13.4	This is Chris Flannery with the Kramon Institute.
0:16.4	I call this one Bullets for Ballots, 1860.
0:23.0	Back in Abraham Lincoln's Day, if you got elected president of the United States in November,
0:29.0	he wouldn't take office until four months later in March of the next year.
0:35.2	A lot can happen in four months.
0:38.5	When Lincoln was elected president on November 6, 1860.
0:42.7	South Carolina called a special convention
0:45.4	to consider seceding from the Union.
0:48.2	On December 20th, delegates to this convention
0:51.4	approved secession by a unanimous vote of 169 to none.
0:56.0	In the weeks following, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,
1:02.0	Louisiana, and Texas, followed South Carolina's example.
1:07.0	Before Lincoln gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861,
1:12.0	these seven slave states had formed what claims to be the sovereign
1:16.1	and independent Confederate states of America.
1:20.1	His inaugural address had to try to keep the remaining eight slave states in the Union,
1:24.9	explain not just to America but to the world why secession was unconstitutional and unjustified.
1:31.7	Make every possible peaceful overture and prepare the and He ended the address with what would become a famous appeal to the friendship of the
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