books.google.com - The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 initiated a heated debate throughout the South about what Republican control of the federal government would mean for the slaveholding states. During the secession crisis of the winter of 1860-61, Southerners spoke out and wrote prolifically on the...https://books.google.com/books/about/Southern_Pamphlets_on_Secession_November.html?id=By6K9VHfWtIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSouthern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860-April 1861