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CHAPTER ONE -- "FOUR WAYS TO FREEDOM":
Lincoln's election "was the first sign in the eyes of Southerners that slavery's national political power was slipping."
From the day of Lincoln's election, "wildfire stories had been spreading that the slaves would be freed on that very day." slaveholding planter in Tennessee remarked that "a servile rebellion is more to be feared now than it was in the days of the revolution... "
This fear of "servile insurrection" was even greater in the national capital, only thirty miles downriver from Harper's Ferry and the specter of John Brown."
William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, declared...
ed in 1858 that "slavery and freedom were locked in an irrepressible conflict" which served as a prediction of a war against slavery.
Lincoln himself declared that "If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong."
Those who knew Lincoln personally "were well-convinced that his face was set toward emancipation from the day of his nomination for the presidency."
John Hay promised that "all Negroes, once lawfully confiscated from the possession of their rebel owners, shall become free men."
In my judgment," wrote Lincoln, "gradual, and not sudden emancipation, is better for all."
Thus, Lincoln was convinced that "gradual emancipation and governmental compensation to the ex-slaves would bring slavery to an end."
With the election of President Lincoln in 1860, many Southerners were convinced that Lincoln was going to do everything in his power to limit slavery in other parts of the country, especially beyond the
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