Why did the South feel justified in seceding from the United States? A) The newly elected president wanted to abolish slavery, but the Constitution protected slavery.
B) Even before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as President, he promise to immediately abolish slavery.
C) Texas, the first state to secede, stated that slavery was moral and legal, and should remain that way.
D) The North had refused to enforce things like the Fugitive Slave Act or export Southern goods.

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i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.