Before it even gets to the underlying cause of secession (seeking a new union with "the slaveholding States of the South"), the January 1861 Alabama ordinance of secession starts right off with "Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln..." https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/Regimental/alabama/confederate/secession …pic.twitter.com/93qLS8Rj44
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