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John Smith Preston Summary

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Nephituria Coleman
US History
11/27/2017
John Smith Preston’s perspective
The issue of secession by the representatives of the South was focused on the influence of the non-slaveholding States, especially in the North and the Western parts of the country to try and abolish the institution of Slavery. The leaders believed that the abolishment of the institution would significantly affect the economic prosperity of the region as the abolishment of the institution of Slavery will reduce the availability of cheap labor from the slaves, and this would make the farmers suffer high production costs. Preston believed that the push for secession was constitutional because it would allow the Government of South Carolina to implement the constitutional provisions, whose implementation have been compromised due to the influence of the non-slaveholding nations.
Preston believed that the deliberate actions by the North to push for the abolition of Slavery was meant to exclude the South, and they were not going to allow that to happen. Some of the primary issues of concern for Preston were the deliberate move by the Federal Legislature to implement a number of legislation that would deprive the Slaveholding States political equality through the exclusion from all the government programs that deals with the territorial …show more content…

While admitting that he had no right to interfere with the institution of Slavery, Abraham Lincoln urged for the establishment of better strategies of handling the issue and solving the primary differences between the regions without necessarily having to secede. He believed that while different States had the rights to manage their affairs and recruit their army, seceding from the Union was not an

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