From: Jonathan Heller
Date: 4/19/00
Time: 10:00:23 PM
Remote Name: 155.247.158.109
At the time of Lincoln’s Inaugural address, the south was already seceding. The Northerners and Southerners took his address with mixed emotion. His attempt to unit the Country was too little too late as the south was rapidly growing tired with the government. The south had put their foot down and was not going to change their beliefs on slavery. Lincoln was being committed to preserving the Union. Lincoln wanted to uphold the constitution and showed by trying to preside with the beliefs and nobility of the previous presidents. However the South thought that by his preserving the Union, that may interfere with their institutions( even though throughout his Inaugural address he attempts to explain his disinterest in doing this). The Newspaper article took Lincoln’s words as threatening to their practices and said they were not going to abide by the Union upon any terms. The south would only stay in the Union if slavery were untouched. Because of this, by the time The Address was given, there was no chance that the Union would remain completely intact, and the Civil War was inevitable.