Lincoln did not necessarily want to be held responsible for bringing slavery to an end. He just wanted to contain it where it already resided. Southerners were outraged. They did not trust Lincoln. They believed that eventually he would try to bring an end to slavery and their SOUTHERN WAY OF LIFE! Southerners despised him so much that many states refused to put his name on the ballot in hopes that would keep him from winning. Southerners did not take into consideration that the North had more white males citizens that were able to vote in 1860 than the South. As a result Lincoln won the election without winning a single Southern state. That was the final straw! The boiling water to civil war had over flowed! Southerners did not
