The Civil War

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would bring an end to slavery. One of the earliest instances of the South believing this was Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech of 1858. Here he warned that the nation would end up being either entirely free or entirely accepting of slavery. If Lincoln were to become president, the South would undoubtedly secede. Stephen Hale, who had been appointed by the governor of Alabama to travel to other slave states to advocate secession, discussed the impact of Lincoln's election. Hale said:

[T]he election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration, on the part of a great majority of the Northern people, of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions-nothing less than an open declaration of war-for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and her wives and daughters ...

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