What a horrible thing for a President to do!
Was Lincoln going to allow the expansion of slavery into the territories?
That was the issue that the South was upset about, that they were not going to be able to expand their despotism.
Um, no. He was attempting to violate a ruling of the Supreme Court.
That was the issue that the South was upset about, that they were not going to be able to expand their despotism.
The territories in question had been open for decades. There were only a handful of blacks enumerated in the census. Lincoln simply wanted his white supremacist Mecca - a lily white west.