Born into a rich family, both Edward and John Rutledge took part in the law. Edward went on to study at Oxford and at the age of 27 attended Congress but left Congress in 1776 in order to aid in his colonies defense. Being in the Charleston Battalion of Artillery, Edward fought in several important battles eventually becoming a captain. He was sent back to Congress in 1779 but left again in 1780 when the British invaded South Carolina for a third time. From 1782 to 1796 he served in the legislature of his native state and was determined to prosecute or find guilty, the British Loyalists. He was also elected to the Senate twice and then was elected to the title of Governor 1789. Due to health conditions, Rutledge was barely able to complete his term as governor and died in January of 1800. …show more content…
There were those that wanted to stay apart of the Union which were Unionists, those that wanted to secede, but with other states were Cooperationists, and those that wanted to secede immediately were Secessionists. Secessionists or Fire Eaters, thought that the only way to solve the conflicting views of the South and North was to secede or break away immediately without any other states' help. Secessionists were ready to secede as early as 1852, eight years before the election of Abraham Lincoln. Due to the division of South Carolinians the state did nothing until 1861. When Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 South Carolina, as a whole, saw what the Secessionists did. Due to the events of the 1850's and the recent election South Carolina
South Carolina seceded from the Union on December of 1860, General Robert Anderson and his troops were stationed out at Fort Moultrie. They did not think Fort Moultrie was safe enough so then he had a plan to move his troops to Fort Sumter. The Commander of the Union was Robert Anderson, and the Confederate commander was P.G.T. Beauregard. Anderson had moved his troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. Soon after coming to the fort Anderson realized he only had a couple week’s supply of food left. The confederate soldiers came and surrounded the fort and demanded Anderson had over the fort to them. Anderson was starting to run out of supplies for fighting and food. General Beauregard thought the Union would leave the South Carolina fort but Anderson refused. Beauregard threatened the Union to surrender but they would not, then the firing began. Anderson eventually realized there was no hope for them winning this battle, he then surrender the Southern for...
As the result, due to the difference between the north and south. They north and south viewed each other differently as two different kind of people. Stephen Douglas explained that the view of southern plantation owners (document 5). They believed the laws fit the northern, not the southern. Therefore, they made their own rules and treated themselves as individual nation which then turned into the confederacy. As a result, Abraham Lincoln gives a speech explaining that in order to succeed we need to work as a nation instead diving each other setting disputes with one in others. (document 4) Therefore, Lincoln goes on to say that two house can’t be divided because they can’t not stand by themselves, but Lincoln challenge the secession of the south because he wonders it would be erupting but he inferred because of slavery. Therefore, the north and south began to have
After Lincoln took office in 1860, afraid southerners seceded from the country, frightened about the future of slavery in the Republican Party hands. South Carolina was the first to secede out of the country, and soon after that the lower south. Later, the upper south seceded, in total being 11 states, became known as The Confederate States of America whose president was Jefferson Davis. In response Lincoln presented his First Inaugural Address to a portion of the country, to dispute the
He had dropped out to become a soldier in the war and to fight for his country. He had first been a lieutenant but after being injured in a battle he was promoted as a major. He actually had fought alongside with George Washington.When he had first joined the army he had joined the 3rd virginia regiment. But he had ended up at harlem heights and survived. But in the year of 1814 he had become a secretary of war. He was always a man who would sacrifice his own life for anyone else who was a part of this country. He was actually the last of the founding fathers to make an appearance.( James Monroe.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Dec. 2017)This explains that he was a big influence in the war because he was always in it and was always a important person while there was a war to
The United States was divided into two divergent sides fighting for control even before 1860. These conflicts never ended up reaching the battlefield, but the free states and slave states were in a battle for representation in Congress. Both sides wanted to control the balance of states in order to gain more authority in Congress. The Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 were attempts to prevent the growing conflict but only delayed the inevitable. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union and other southern states soon followed. By the time that Lincoln was inaugurated in 1860, seven states parted from the Union and were eventually joined by four more. The South seceded because they assumed that they had the constitutional right to do so. South Carolina seceded because they believed the North would gain enough power in the central government to abolish slavery entirely in the United States. Secession was their last choice in order to maintain their power and lifestyle. The Civil War led to the Emancipation Proclamation and abolishment of slavery, but this ...
What is called "the right of secession" has no existence. It means the right of revolution, which belongs to every people....If the revolution succeeds, history justifies them; if they fail, it condemns them, even while not condemning their motives of action....If South Carolina should rebel,--and secession is rebellion,--and if other states should join her, it would be the duty of the general government to compel them to observe the law....” ("Secession and the Civil War").
The Civil War was a battle between the northern states and the southern states. The southern states wanted to secede
...he South felt that the federal government was placing taxes and laws that unfairly treated the South. The South also believed that they, as a state, had the right to secede from the union if they pleased.
...om’s Cabin in 1852, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859, and the outcome of the Presidential Election of 1860—created conditions where Southerners felt the need to secede from the United States (they felt that their “way of life” was being threatened), as well as created conditions where the Northerners decided to go to war against the Southern Confederacy in order to maintain the Union. It is not surprising, however, that the Civil War occurred; since the Industrial Revolution, the Industrial North had always been different than the Agricultural South. If each region paid more attention to resolving the issues that separated them, instead of trying to prove themselves right, they could have stopped the bloodiest battle in American history (even though this is using hindsight knowledge).
When the Civil War broke out, there were already some Southern states that seceded from the North and claimed it’s own independency. They didn’t agree with the North’s way of thinking of slavery, as the South needed it for their economic benefit. They socially banned together to create their own army and fight the Union.
“Proponents of this viewpoint believed that each state should secede on its own without waiting for collective action by the South as a whole” (McPherson, 140). These territories held major populaces of slave districts, and were folks whom preserved Democrats, without slaves, and Whig partisans, with slaves, whom were in the drive to end slavery by the apparent Republican risk to white sovereignty and oppression. Cooperation secessionists consisted of three subtypes. Firstly, the cooperative secessionists whom were ones who leaned toward secession, but were not willing to partake until others did so. Secondly, the ultimatumists whom wondered what Lincoln would do in response to these operations, as president. The last subtype of cooperation secession was the conditional unionists, they wanted to stay in the union unless or until there was an attack on the south. Unconditional unionists were men whom wanted to stay in the United States and wanted no part of
There were some people who were for secession and they were mainly the slave owners. There were also people that were against secession and that was a large number of people in the south.The South was an agricultural state and they did want to secede and the North didn’t want to secede because they was and industrial state and they were not slave state. Not every state was apart of slavery.There were certain groups that opposed to the decision to secede.
The South did not have had the right to secede because the souths legal justification is irrelevant because they have flaws in their ideology about how the states are taking away their freedom. I found in the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union that one of their justifications for leaving the union is that their slaves should be sent back which makes it another person's responsibility for your own “property” without substantial proof. Another flaw I found in their argument in the Ordinance of Secession of South Carolina is that it says that since the states are taking away their freedom to slaves, they can fight for it when in actuality it is the people who are helping slaves escape, adding even more so to this wrong idea of secession. One last Flaw I found is that they are complaining that their rights are being infringed upon while in actuality they are taking the rights away from African-American slaves making the whole argument hypocritical.
The South seceded unlawfully for many reasons. Firstly, the thirteen original colonies, Texas, and Mexico all gave up their indigenous, sovereign status to enter the Union, in hopes of receiving the guaranteed benefits that the U.S. Constitution offers: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All other states that appealed to Congress for statehood, have no right to even think about the idea of sovereignty, as they never held the status and wanted to be a part of the glorious Union. Secondly, the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, states that one of the goals for the new nation was “to form a more perfect Union.” The statement “more perfect Union” encapsulates the ceaselessness and perpetuity of the Union, and implies the inseparability of its states. Another piece of evidence, found manifestly in the U.S. Constitution, is Article 1, Section 10, which states “No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation.” Since the Confederate...
In the 1860 presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, opposed the expansion of slavery into United States' territories. Lincoln won, but before his inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. The first six to secede had the highest proportions of slaves in their populations, a total of 48.8% for the six. Outgoing Democratic President James Buchanan and the incoming Republicans rejected secession as illegal. Lincoln's inaugural address declared his administration would not initiate civil war. Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession. Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within territory claimed by the Confederacy. A peace conference failed to find a compromise, and both sides prepared for war. The Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on "King Cotton" that they would intervene; none did and none recognized the new Conf...