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Megan: Hi, my name is Megan.
Casidy: And I'm Casidy.
Megan: And we're here live at Fort Sumter.
Casidy: And Fort Sumter has just been fired upon.
Both: Wait, how did we get here?
[rewind sound]
Girl 1: After the votes had been counted,
it was announced that Lincoln had won.
Girl singing: Need a candidate who is right for you?
Abraham.
He's the best, even wears a vest.
Abraham.
Lincoln lately ooh, lately ooh,
lately ooh.
Lincoln: Hi, I'm Abraham Lincoln and I'm here with
Chloe Fisher and Ana Hernandez.
Our topic tonight is election of 1860 that I won
and everyone is happy about that.
Now off to Ana Hernandez.
Ana: Casidy Havird is with Mary Chestnut
in Charleston, South Carolina.
Let's see what she has to say.
Casidy: Thank you Ana.
I am here with Mary Chestnut, a local socialite.
So Mary, what do you have to say on Lincoln's winning?
Mary: Well, I was walking down the street and I heard
someone say "Now that the black radical Republicans
have all the power I suppose they'll brown us all."
and I completely agree.
Casidy: Well, thank you Mary,
and back to you in the studio.
Chloe: Welcome back to Lincoln Lately,
now let us go to the street to see what people have to say.
Megan: Hi, I'm Megan and I'm here with a representative
of the Missouri newspaper, the St. Louis Democrat.
What do you have to say about Lincoln winning?
Newspaper man: Let the nation rejoice at this glorious event!
Let a choral shout of exultation rise
from the souls of the people!
Lincoln: Thank you Megan.
Now Chloe has something to say...
Cali: Breaking news, breaking news!
South Carolina just seceded!
Lincoln: WHAT?!
Boy 1: And now the State of South Carolina having
resumed her separate and equal place among the
nations deems it due to herself to the remaining
United States of America and to the nations of the world
that she should declare the immediate causes
which have led to this act.
Chloe: Mississippi
Lincoln: Florida
Ana: Alabama
Chloe: Georgia
Lincoln: Louisiana
Ana: Texas
Lincoln: I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,
to interfere with the institution of slavery in
the states where it exists.
...mystic chords of memory stretching from every
battlefield and patriotic grave to every living heart
and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet
swell the chorus of the Union,
when again touched, as surely they will be,
by the better angels of our nature.
Megan: Hi, my name is Megan.
Casidy: And I'm Casidy.
Megan: And we're here live at Fort Sumter.
Casidy: And Fort Sumter has just been fired upon.