It is from the article called, “ The south secedes”

A. The South seceded because it felt Lincoln would abolish slavery.

B. South Carolina seceded because southern states felt that Lincoln had not won the southern election and was not their true leader.

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President Lincoln was a Republican which was an abolitionist party and he had made many speeches condemning slavery. When he was elected president therefore, Southern states believed that he would abolish slavery due to his opposition to it.

The South could not accept this and also believed that Lincoln was not a President of the nation as he didn't win many votes in the South. This prompted South Carolina to declare secession and they were followed by other Southern states.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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