How did the commissioners attempt to fulfill their mission? Cite specific examples of their activities, naming the specific individuals and what they said during these activities.

 Commissioners fulfilled their missions by using powerful rhetoric and relatable examples that struck their audiences with passion. Their job was to convince state legislatures to secede from the Union and join other southern states in creating a Confederacy in order to protect their prosperity, strength, and wealth from the tyrannical horrors of the Black Republicanism gripping the North. The speeches and oratory of the commissioners had an obligation to bring forth all the points of the abolition crisis in order to convince all remaining unionists to reconsider the repercussions of remaining within the union. John Archer Elmore, Alabama’s commissioner to South Carolina proclaimed Lincoln’s election as “an avowed declaration of war upon the institutions, the rights and the interests of the South