"Southern political leaders were threatening to take their states out of the Union if a Republican president was elected on a platform restricting slavery."
— James M. McPherson

January 1, 1970

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Historians from the United StatesMacArthur FellowsPrinceton University facultyPeople from North DakotaHistorians of the American Civil War
Original Language: English

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James M. McPhersonThis Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (2007), Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 188