Read the “Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention” online at the following site, AND one of the other speeches (your choice which) by a secession commissioner sent by the first states to secede to the other Southern states to help persuade them to join the Confederacy as well:

http://civilwarcauses.org/commish.htm

After reading the speeches, post a response to it of at least 300 of your own words on the forum. Why, according to Benning and the other “secession commissioners, did the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 make the secession of the Southern states necessary? Then respond to at least two of your classmates posts.