The 1860 Election, Lincoln’s Inauguration, and Secession – Waypoints

Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress in Special Session (1861)

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)

Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Constitution and Union (c. 1861)

Abraham Lincoln, Address at the Cooper Institute (1860)

Georgia, Ordinance of Secession (1861)

A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union (1861)

Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union (1860)

Four Party Platforms (1860)