Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States…
January 1861 CE
Davis believes that each state is sovereign and has an unquestionable right to secede from the Union.
At the same time, he had counseled delay among his fellow Southerners, because he does not think that the North will permit the peaceable exercise of the right to secession.
Having served as secretary of war under President Pierce, he also knows that the South lacks the military and naval resources necessary for defense in a war.
Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, however, events had accelerated
South Carolina had adopted an ordinance of secession on December 20, 1860, and Mississippi had done so on January 9, 1861.
Davis had expected this but waited until he received official notification.
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