unlike alexander stephens when it was known as a committee of 13 he said he would accept such a proposal because he knew georgians would accept it. he would never have seceded. the initial blow to was a narrow but it did in the election one of the problems that people had was the leadership reasons that are difficult to understand never made it much of a campaign it was a narrow margin moving of the congress would not have happened. that is another matter. but in a kind of compromise by itself against the federal government. to stimulate georgia to a place like louisiana i think it would have made a big difference. >> wachovia for its for slavery? >> they thought there is no way to nationalize because they thought the state would have to decide. illinois 1/2 to make that decision. the dread scott decision said american citizens take their property and to any territory. the court might have said to take the slave property through a state through illinois to someplace else. that was not the case but states have laws they would not allow them to come and. based nine dread scott they said th

men like jefferson davis and mississippi who would become the confederate president, and alexander stephens, here in georgia, who of course would become the president -- southern vice president who oppose secession to lincoln drew them all together to keep is not have understood the political force pressed by fire eaters or southern conservatives and southern regulators. now, while lincoln's ignorance of the south powerfully influenced his opposition to compromise, i think his partisanship also played a critical part. his actions made clear he approached the crisis not as the president-elect of the united states, but as leader of the republican party. moreover, by november 1860, he has been but a few months as party chief. that brief tenure left him unsure about the security of his leadership, and anxious about party unity. during the crisis many republicans and non-republicans alike urged him to make a public statement addressing the issues, we assuring southerners of the rights and his determination to be president of all americans, southerners as well as northern, time and time again, li