U.S. 1860
WHITES
WHITES & BLACKS
NEGROES
RAILWAYS COMPLETED
” PROJECTED
The effort of the presidential campaign by the Democrats may have been for an election in the House in 1860, and may have been lost, as Prof. Dodd declares, “only by a narrow margin by the votes of the foreigners, whom the railroads poured in numbers into the contested region;” but that triumph at the most would have only deferred the contest for another four years, for by its special correspondent in the West, the Columbus, Georgia, Times had been informed in 1854:
“If Kansas becomes a free soil State slavery will be doomed for Missouri.”[177]
The attempt then, inaugurated in 1840, to parallel the Northern systems, pouring population westward, was recognized as an impossible task in 1860, and with the election of Lincoln, known as the man who had declared a house divided against itself cannot stand, the South attempted to end the division by Secession.
To such a solution the more powerful North was unwilling to consent, and the war followed for the Union.
FOOTNOTES:
[152] Woodrow Wilson, Division and Reunion, p. 184.
[153] Ibid.
[154] Ibid. p. 185.
[155] Jefferson Davis, Rise & Fall of Confed. Gov. p. 29, Vol. I.