Brian Skinner

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The outgoing president, James Buchanan, had refused to risk anything: hence his terrifying passivity as seven slave states seceded after Lincoln’s election, seizing federal facilities as they did so. Anxious senators—among them Seward, Douglas, and John Crittenden of Kentucky—tried stitching together compromises, but after briefly considering a few, Lincoln returned to the fundamentals:
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