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How did President Buchanan and other Northerners respond to secession?

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President Buchanan and other Northerners responded to secession by arguing against it and saying that it was unconstitutional. Buchanan believed that the states did not have the right to withdraw from the Union because the federal government, not the state governments, was a sovereign.

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