[quote=Byrd Man]
You have a point, but don't forget the CSA seceded first as a knee-jerk reaction to Lincoln's election. They just assumed he would try to abolish slavery as their president, and they were probably right but they fired the first shots. But we could be here all day debating the topic to no avail.
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Very true. By cooler heads I mean on both sides. Haha. 

THough I do find it incredibly hypocritical that just a few years before all this there were Northern States thinking about seceding as well for their own reasons.