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« on: November 19, 2012, 07:13:46 PM » |
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With the election of Charles Adams on the Free Soil ticket the previous year, the South is in revolt. Already, slavery has been continually weakened by previous Presidents' refusal to expand into Texas, allow filibusters into Latin America, and strengthen fugitive slave laws. Now however, a party devoted specifically to opposition to slavery, as if eight years of Van Buren hadn't been bad enough. With that, several state senates in the South have gone into revolt passing resolutions of secession between December 1848 and March 1849. With the newly inaugurated President Adams refusing to consider a peace deal proposed by outgoing U.S. President John Tyler, Tyler has chosen loyalty to his state of Virginia rather than his country and joined the secessionist forces. At a meeting in Atlanta Georgia, state delegations from across this new "Confederation of American States" are meeting to elect a President to a six-year term in accordance with the Confederacy's constitution. As well, this President would be responsible for defending the Confederacy as well as making an alliance with the neighboring Republic of Texas in order to strengthen the South's hand in the war.
Meanwhile, to the North, President Adams is meeting with his newly assembled war cabinet, led by General Winfield Scott, to attempt to crush the rebellion. As well, the responsibility has been his to ensure that certain border states--Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, and Delaware--do not secede, a difficult task. The President is hoping to utilize the country's industry and greater infrastructure against the mostly rural South.
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