Use the excerpt from A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union to answer the question. Which event most directly incited this statement? A. the call by Abraham Lincoln for Union troops B. the election of Abraham Lincoln as president C. the firing of Confederate ships on Fort Sumter D. the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

C. the firing of Confederate ships on Fort Sumter