16. Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.
The declared purpose of the compact of Union from which we have
withdrawn was "to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
and when, in the judgment of the sovereign States now composing
this Confederacy, it had ... ceased to answer the ends for which it was
established, a peaceful appeal to the ballot-box declared that so far
as they were concerned, the government created by that compact
should cease to exist.
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-President Jefferson Davis, inaugural address, February 18, 1861
How did President Abraham Lincoln react to the idea expressed in Jefferson Davis's
inaugural address?